Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation, Inc. has listed in tables the most up-to-date approved sterilization and high-level disinfection methods to use with specific instruments manufactured by Richard Wolf.  Each table is specific to the sterilization/high-level disinfection method and the instruments that have been tested and approved for that method. 

STERRAD^® Systems Table

V-Pro™ Systems Table

STERIS System 1E™ Table

Reliance™ Table

Resert^® Table

These tables will be updated as further validation testing is completed and approved for use and/or as new sterilization/high-level disinfection methods become available to the market.

Information to decontaminate, package, sterilize or high-level disinfect:

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments, Inc. has developed additional reprocessing information for instruments based on testing for alternative decontamination and sterilization methods that may not have been available when the instruments were originally manufactured.  This additional information is assembled by:

• “Heat Stable Instruments” Reprocessing Manual
• “Heat Sensitive Instruments” Reprocessing Manual

“Heat Stable Instruments” are those instruments whose product catalog number usually starts with an “8”. The manual includes:

Methods of decontamination:

• Thorough step-by-step disassembly and decontamination, including manual and machine decontamination methods

Methods of sterilization:

• Primary: steam sterilization
• Alternatives: listed in “Heat Stable Instruments” Reprocessing Manual that may include low-temperature sterilization methods and/or high-level disinfection, as appropriate.

“Heat Sensitive Instruments” are those instruments whose product catalog number usually starts with a “4” or “7”.  The manual includes:

Methods of decontamination:

• Thorough step-by-step disassembly and decontamination, including manual and machine decontamination methods

Methods of sterilization:

• Primary: low-temperature gas or plasma
• Alternatives: listed in “Heat Sensitive Instruments” Reprocessing Manual that may include other low-temperature sterilization methods and/or high-level disinfection, as appropriate.

Please locate these manuals on the Richard Wolf website or call Customer Service at (800) 323-WOLF (9653) or email at reprocessing@richardwolfusa.com for a copy of the Reprocessing Manual of your choice.