E. How To Clean and Maintain Your eRapid
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Disinfecting Your Handset
To reduce the risk of serious or fatal illness or injury caused by
contamination, it is important to disinfect your Handset daily or as
recommended by your physician. Disinfection is more effective if
you clean your Handset before you disinfect.
Step E9:
Disinfect the Handset
with the commercially
available medical device disinfectant Control III® or
by boiling in distilled water.
•
To disinfect with disinfectant
, mix ½
tablespoon of Control III solution to 1 quart of
water in a clean bowl. Immerse the parts in that
bowl and soak for
10 minutes
(
Figure E9a
).
Remove parts from solution and rinse thoroughly
with sterile water.
•
To disinfect with boiling water
, immerse and
boil the parts, including the Aerosol Head, in a
clean pot of
distilled
water for a full 5 minutes
(
Figure E9b
).
Step E10:
Dry on a lint-free cloth or paper towel (Figure
E10)
. After the parts are completely dry, place
them in a bag or cover them with a lint-free cloth or
paper towel for storage. Re-assemble the Handset
just prior to the next treatment.
Unclogging the Aerosol Head with Easycare
(Optional)
After multiple uses, your nebulization time may slowly increase. If
soaking in soapy water does not improve performance, it may be
necessary to perform special cleaning of the Aerosol Head. The
Easycare
is used to clean and unclog the small holes in the
Aerosol Head by reversing the flow of liquid. The cleaning process
takes about 5-10 minutes and uses the
Easycare
powered by the
Controller.
It is important NOT TO USE
the
Easycare
more than
30 times on a single Aerosol Head.
Clean the Handset as described in Steps E1-E7.
Step E11:
Open the Easycare.
•
Press lightly on the side gripping surfaces to release
the side engaging hooks
(Figure E11)
.
•
Gently pull the light gray funnel part outward and
down.
E11
E9a
E9b
E10
