	US 11,833,258 B2
	Method for sterilizing water-filled devices
Ralf Flieg, Rangendingen (DE); Wolfgang Freudemann, Hechingen (DE); and Torsten Knoer, Burladingen (DE)
Assigned to GAMBRO LUNDIA AB, Lund (SE)
Appl. No. 16/638,671
Filed by GAMBRO LUNDIA AB, Lund (SE)
PCT Filed Aug. 16, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/072161 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 12, 2020, PCT Pub. No. WO2019/034714, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 21, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 17186610 (EP), filed on Aug. 17, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0187137 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
Int. Cl. A61L 2/07 (2006.01); A61M 1/16 (2006.01)

CPC A61L 2/07 (2013.01) [A61M 1/1686 (2013.01); A61L 2202/24 (2013.01)]

10 Claims

1. A process for steam-sterilizing a liquid-filled medical device, the process comprising the steps of: closing at least one open liquid port of the liquid-filled medical device with a stopper; closing any remaining open ports of the liquid-filled medical device; and steam-sterilizing the closed liquid-filled medical device,

characterized in that the stopper is obtainable by piercing a non-cannulated stopper comprised of an elastomeric material with a cannula having an outer diameter in the range of from about 0.4 mm to about 1.0 mm,

wherein the liquid-filled medical device is a filtration device.