APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYSING BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC A61L2/28 C12Q1/22 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to monitoring the environment inside a sterilisation system to ensure effective sterilisation of medical devices. Disclosed is a biological indicator analyser, comprising: (a) a plurality of wells, configured to receive a respective biological indicator; (b) a plurality of organism detector features, each configured to detect whether a biological indicator disposed in a corresponding well of the plurality of wells contains a living organism; (c) a touch screen, configured to receive user input and provide information to the user indicating a status of biological indicator analysis; (d) a processor, configured to receive a well selection and an indicator selection from a user; configured to detect whether a control indicator is placed in the well, performing incubation of the control indicator and analysing the control indicator in order to determine the presence of biological contamination; configured to display a notification that a second control indicator from a batch of indicators in another well should be tested, in the absence of biological contamination in the control indicator. Versions of the method for analysing a biological indicator using an indicator analyser are also disclosed.

EFFECT: higher efficiency and reliability of the analysis.

14 cl, 21 dwg, 26 ex