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Old 01-19-2012, 05:50 AM
 
Location: Interior AK
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If you can sterilize food and jars in a pressure canner, makes sense that you can sterilize medical equipment (or anything impervious) as well... you're killing the same sorts of beasties.

As Granny mentions, I wouldn't bother trying to reuse any of the sharps unless you absolutely had to, but the mechanicals (clamps, forceps, etc) should be good to go in a PC... heck, probably even a BWB or steam canner for that matter.
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:12 PM
 
Location: FROM Dixie, but IN SoCal
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A pressure cooker is an autoclave. Instruments can also be stirelized with Tincture of Iodine, Chlorine bleach and 151 proof rum. That latter can also help the care giver with nerves if applied internally in judicious amounts.
Amen on the 151 rum, in both applications!!! And don't fail to consider the idea of sterilizing by means of an open flame...

I mean, we ARE talking about field-expediency, right?
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Old 08-15-2014, 10:35 PM
 
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a pressure cooker will work just fine
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Old 08-16-2014, 05:39 PM
 
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Where is the Patriot Nurse on this subject?
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