Question
What is the percentage range in which the solution shown below can be used as a disinfectant?
A. 10-20%.
B. 2-4%.
C. 7-15%.
D. 20-30%.
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Ans:B. 2-4%.
The picture above shows Glutaraldehyde.
Glutaraldehyde
- It is a high-level disinfectant most frequently used as a disinfectant for heat-sensitive equipment such as dialysis instruments, surgical instruments, suction bottles, bronchoscopes, endoscopes, ear, nose, and throat instruments,spirometry tubing, transducers, anesthesia and respiratory therapy equipment and reuse of laparoscopic disposable plastic trocars .
- Glutaraldehyde is noncorrosive to metal and does not damage lensed instruments, rubber. or plastics
- It is also used as a tissue fixative in histology and pathology laboratories and as a hardening agent in the development of x-rays.
- Glutaraldehyde products are available in a variety of concentrations (solutions range in concentration from 2.4 – 3.4%).