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In a recent article
in Eye World magazine ( http://www.eyeworld.org/aug01/0801p30.html
), Ellen Dean Wilson wrote that although a few giants
still dominate the autoclave business, the makers of
other sterilizers like the Cox Dry Heat Sterilizers
are beginning to see profit in the fear of infections
following laser in-situ keratomileusis and other surgeries.
Here are what some Cox users told Eye World magazine.
TLC
Laser Center in Garden City, N.Y 516-742-2020
- Juliet Patterson, senior technician has been using
the Cox Dry Heat Sterilizer since Nov 1999. She recently
told Eye World that her office once used steam sterilization,
but has switched to a dry-heat Cox unit. The turnaround
time is shorter, and everything comes out dry,
she said, adding that the 375º F temperature it
reaches sterilizes the instruments well. Alfa Medical
manufacturers the Cox Rapid Heat Transfer Sterilizer.
Jones Eye Clinic, with offices
in Sioux City, Iowa 712-239-3937 - Bob Lund,
business administrator at , and two other cities, who
has been using the Cox Dry Heat Sterilizer since Nov
1999 likes the speed and convenience of
its Cox unit; it is on a rolling cart that can be quickly
repositioned in another room and doesnt need a
water connection. Its a very clean sterilizer,
he said. When wet sterilization was used by the clinic,
technicians had to handle water bottles, so it was not
as convenient.
The three physicians in the practice primarily perform
cataract and LASIK surgery; they have not had any cases
of Sands of Sahara (diffuse lamellar keratitis [DLK]),
Mr Bob Lund said.
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