What Medical Applications Require High Frequency Ultrasonic Cleaning?

Ultrasonic cleaning is the ideal solution for many medical applications because medical ultrasonic cleaners deliver rapid and complete cleaning without using hazardous chemicals. They can even clean parts with complex shapes, interior cavities, or cracks and ridges wherever the cleaning solution can penetrate. Medical applications, such as implants, surgical instruments, and other medical devices, must be clean and sterile in ultrasonic bath with a disinfecting solution.

Choosing the right type of frequency in an ultrasonic cleaner will result in optimum cleaning performance. For medical devices with soft or delicate parts, or those that may have parts with delicate structures, the best cleaning performance is achieved by gentle cleaning at high frequencies. Low frequencies produce a powerful cleaning action that can dislodge contaminants effectively, causing pitting of soft surfaces or damage to fragile components.

Ultrasonic systems generate microscopic bubbles in the cleaning solution. When the bubbles burst, they produce energetic jets that dislodge contaminants from the medical devices' surfaces. Higher frequencies produce smaller bubbles and less energetic jets, which are ideal for cleaning fragile and delicate parts such as parts of medical devices. Such components could be damaged very easily by powerful mechanical cleaning. High-frequency medical ultrasonic cleaners deliver thorough but gentle cleaning action, which is suitable for medical devices.

Specific medical instruments – such as those that take readings of a patient's condition – can't be sterilized with heat because their circuitry and material are heat-sensitive. In this case high-frequency ultrasonic cleaning technology can clean such instruments in a solution of disinfectant, which will sterilize and clean them at the same time.

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