VERFAHREN UND EINRICHTUNG ZUM DESINFIZIEREN VON KNOCHENTRANSPLANTATEN, INSBESONDERE VON HUMANEN SPONGIOSA-TRANSPLANTATEN

摘要

The following steps are carried out for disinfecting a bone transplant: making available, and measuring the size of, the bone transplant (18); introducing the bone transplant (18) into a vessel (13) having a predetermined capacity; filling the vessel (13) with a sterile liquid up to a vessel mark (24), provided for all sizes of bone transplant, above the bone transplant (18); sealing the vessel (13) with a lid (26) having a self-sealing pierceable region (28); inserting the sealed vessel (13) in a heating unit (1) and heating the vessel (13) over a constant first time-span to a final temperature, and maintaining this final temperature over a second time-span having a fixed relationship with the measured size of the bone transplant (18); cooling the vessel (13) to room temperature; piercing the pierceable region (28) of the lid (26) and a pierceable region of another lid (36) of a collecting container (34) by means of a transfer set (33) for discharge of the liquid from the vessel (13) into the collecting container (34); and removing the transfer set (33) from the vessel lid and introducing the vessel (13) into a cooling chamber in order to freeze the bone transplant (18).