Saban Ventures Pty Limited

Gavin Spargo

Brian Hingley

David Anthony Pidcock

Stefan Gebhardt

Alexander Galkin

Madeleine Jane Clegg

Mathias Berg-johansen

Panagiotis Thrasou

Forough Khandan

Gilbert T Alemana

Mark Lewis Holloway

Mohsen Nabipoor

Kristina Palmer

Described herein is a cleaning apparatus () for a medical device () having one or more internal channels. Further described is a method for cleaning the medical device using the cleaning apparatus. The cleaning apparatus includes at least two cleaning pumps () adapted to pump a viscoelastic liquid (), each cleaning pump having individual flow control. Each cleaning pump is also fluidly connectable to one or more of the internal channels to allow the viscoelastic liquid to be pumped therethrough thereby removing contaminants.

Apparatus and method for cleaning a medical device

A method of cleaning a contaminated surface, such as cleaning the elongate interior lumen of an endoscope contaminated with flesh, bone, blood, mucous, faeces or biofilm, said method comprising the steps of: providing a suspension of solid particles in a liquid to said contaminated surface, and flowing said suspension along said surface thereby to remove contaminant from the surface. The suspension is preferably a paste, where the solid material may be e.g. crystals of a salt, silicon oxide or organic material. The paste preferably has a solid fraction between 5 and 55%. A rheology modifier may be present.

Suspension cleaning

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