Abstract: Contiguous puncturable containers of water and ethylene oxide are provided as a unitary device to provide successive introduction and vaporization into a chamber in which there are contained objects to be sterilized. The containers comprising the unitary structure are opened in succession to provide necessary humidity followed by the introduction of ethylene oxide gas, where both substances are necessary for accomplishing effective sterilization.

Abstract: A method for sterilizing medical devices is disclosed. The method comprises the circulation of a sterilant gas through a contaminated device bacteriologically to sterilize exposed surfaces, permitting the sterilant gas to remain within the lumen of the device for an effective period of time, and thereafter removing the sterilant gas by purging with sterile air or other inert gas.

Abstract: Apparatus for holding medical and other devices while sterilant gas is passed over and through the device. The apparatus comprises an inflatable cuff which inflates by interior pressure as the pressure in the sterilizer chamber decreases, and relaxes as chamber pressure increases, thereby alternately holding the device and exposing its surfaces to the sterilant gas and desorbing gas.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for sterilizing medical devices and the like. The apparatus comprises means for the recirculation of a sterilant gas and a diluting gas through narrow passages in the medical device in sufficient quantity and for sufficient time to sterilize bacteriologically, and then to aerate, exposed passage surfaces. The method comprises the circulation of a sterilant gas through a contaminated device bacteriologically to sterilize exposed surfaces, and thereafter to remove the sterilant gas by purging with sterile air or other inert gas.

Abstract: A plastic band and bail system to be attached to bottles containing solutions for intravenous administration, wherein a plastic band surrounds the bottle and a bail of plastic material is formed integral with or attached to the plastic band.

Abstract: A limited class of compounds is disclosed for use in low dosage to inhibit the growth of or to kill fungi, Gram-positive, and especially Gram-negative bacteria. These compounds are members of a family in which the trichloromethylthio group is appended to a nitrogen atom forming part of a ring structure. While a number of the compounds of this general family have some effect against other microorganisms, such as Staphylococcus Aureus, Aspergillus Niger, Streptoverticillium Reticuli, only a few of the compounds in this general family have been found to have an effect against Gram-negative bacteria as well. This unique property makes the present compounds especially useful as bacteriostatic and bactericidal agents to be incorporated in resinous materials, such as polymeric resinous materials, whether contained in bulk, film, or liquid solution or dispersion.