[Problems of control of centralized sterilization in the therapeutic-prophylactic institutions]

The authors analyze their many-year experience in the work of the sanitary-epidemiological station on control of centralized sterilization departments (CSD) in medical institutions. This control system included preventive and current sanitary supervision, assessment of the efficacy and pecularities of the use of special equipment, the checking of the presterilization treatment and sterilization of medical objects. A necessity of improvment of methods of packing the materials and instruments subject to sterilization and of a thorough study of the sanitary-hygienic conditions of the CSD personnel was demonstrated.