Instrument

Uses

Instrument
sterilizers

Used to sterilize instruments in absence of an autoclave

Dressing drums

storage of gowns, cotton, linen, etc.

The microscope

used for visualising minute structures including microbes.

Various stains

used to stain microscopic slides to get contrast

Hot air oven

used in sterilizing instruments for various aseptic procedures,

specially if that can not be autoclaved like powders.

Koch's or Arnold's
steam sterilizer

used for steam sterilization

A pressure cooker

used as a portable autoclave.

Used to ascertain if a certain process has been completed,

Biological and
e.g. spores used in an autoclave are killed if autoclaving is
chemical indicators
properly done.For details, see indicators
Filters:
Candle filter:

used as household water filters and as filters for large

particles in the laboratories.

Diatomaceous
earth filters like the -doBerkefeld filter
Unglazed
porcelain filters like
the Chamberland
filter

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Disk filter or Seitz

filter

previously used as bacteriological filters; presently obsolete

Sintered glass filter used as a good particle filter in laboratories.

Membrane filter
and Syringe filter

used as primary bacterial/cell filters in procedures as toxin,

immunoglobulin, etc. production, where the product gets
denatured on heating.

Air filter

like HEPA filter, used in various laboratories and clean rooms

to produce lamellar air flow.

Radiation:
Gamma ray source
X-ray source

used in sterilization of heat-labile products like plastic or

rubber syringes, catheters and gloves.
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Infrared light
source

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Ultraviolet light
source

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Inspissator

used to produce culture media for bacteriology that contain

egg or serum, which coagulate on heating.

Tyndallizer

a process of sterilization from spore bearing bacteria; vide

link

Water bath

to heat things uniformly from all sides at a set temperature

up to the boiling point of water.

Needle Destroyer

Burns the needle electrically either cuts the syringe manually

or burns it electrically

Sharps container[4]

A imperforable container for sharp wastes like needles,

blades, microscope slides, broken glass, etc.

Cardboard
biomedical waste
containers
Reusable tubs[5]
Colour coded
biomedical waste bags (India) [6]
Yellow plastic bags

for human anatomical, animal, microbiological and soiled

waste.

Red disinfected
container or plastic
bags

microbiological waste, solid waste(IV tubes, catheters, etc.)

Blue or White
plastic bag or
puncture proof
containers

sharps, disposable tubing, etc.

Black Plastic bag

or puncture proof
containers

discarded medicines, incineration ash, chemical waste

Disinfectants

for cleaning

Incinerators

to burn biomedical wastes like removed body parts, blood,

gauze, linen, etc.