Suitable for operating rooms, veterinary hospitals, and sterilization supply centers. Also suitable for specialized hospitals such as dental, orthopedic, surgical, plastic surgery, and internal medicine departments.

Typical sterilizable instruments include: flexible and rigid endoscopes, hysteroscopes, probes, laryngoscopes, and other tubular instruments, glass instruments such as ophthalmic lenses; fiber optic cables, laser heads, and ultrasound probes, prostatectomy devices, defibrillator electrodes, and esophageal dilators; and other instruments made of materials other than those classified as “non-sterile.”