Background and Identification

Getinge is a global medical technology company founded in Sweden in 1904. Getinge produces equipment and systems within healthcare and life sciences. Getinge sterilizers include the name “Getinge” in capital letters with a flower-like logo that consists of three ‘V’-shaped lines with their points all facing the center of a circle.

Sterilization is any process that eliminates, kills, or removes all forms of life, specifically microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc., and biological agents from a surface, object, or fluid. It can be done in various ways including heat, chemicals, irradiation, high pressure, and filtration. Medical and surgical devices are sterilized to avoid transmission of pathogens.

Although a lot of the equipment used in a medical setting is heat stable, since the 1950’s there has been an increase in devices used that require lower temperature sterilization. So heat is still used for sterilization but increasingly other methods such as hydrogen peroxide gas plasma, peracetic acid immersion, and ozone are used as well.

Getinge produces a broad selection of built-in pass-through sterilizers in a range of sizes and models for various volume requirements and types of goods. Getinge advertises that they produce a sterilizer for every application within a hospital, including sterilizers with low-temperature processes, steam, and cycles for fluid production.

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