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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain 2004 4(4):103-106; doi:10.1093/bjaceaccp/mkh029
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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 4 Number 4 2004 © The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004

Decontamination of anaesthetic equipment

Nadeem Sabir, BSc MB BS FRCA, Specialist Registrar
Department of Anaesthesia, Northwick Park & St Mark's Hospitals, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3UJ

Vino Ramachandra, MB BS FRCA, Consultant Anaesthetist
Department of Anaesthesia, Northwick Park & St Mark's Hospitals, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3UJ
Tel: 02088 693969, Fax: 02088 693975, E-mail: vino.ramachandra{at}nwlh.nhs.uk (for correspondence)

Awareness that some diseases are transmissible has existed for centuries. Hippocrates in 450 BC used wine or boiled water to irrigate wounds and, in the second century, Galen was reported to have boiled his instruments before use. In the middle ages, people suffering with leprosy and the severely ill were isolated from the local population. However, modern infection control was only started in the 19th century as a consequence of the work of Pasteur, Lister and other pioneers.


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