Wet Pack after Steam Sterilization:Analysis and Management / 中华医院感染学杂志

OBJECTIVE To analyze the reason of the wet pack after steam sterilization,in order to put forward the countermeasures and apply them to our work for reducing the number of wet pack. METHODS The results of wet pack were evaluated from May 2005 to Aug 2007 retrospectively.The countermeasures were applied to our work from Sep 2007 to Mar 2008 and compared with before(from Jan to Aug). RESULTS There were 1943 wet packs appeared,the wet pack ratio was 0.37%.Reasons of the wet pack including the factors about sterilizer(35.1%),load(33.12%),preparedness(25.68%) and cooling(6.10%).The ratio of wet pack had decreased from 0.32% to 0.11% after controls(? 2 = 42.5,P