Integra CUSA Clarity Cleaning Instruction Manual

Integra® CUSA® Clarity

Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator System

Cleaning Instruction Guide

Integra® CUSA® Clarity – Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator System

Disassembling, Cleaning, and Sterilizing the System

PREFACE

Intended Audience

This cleaning instruction guide and the equipment it describes are for use only by qualified medical professionals trained in the par­ticular technique and surgical procedure to be performed. It is intended as a guide for cleaning the CUSA® Clarity Ultrasonic Surgical
Aspirator System only.

CAUTION

Federal (USA) law restricts this device to
sale by or on the order of a physician.

Overview

This section describes how to disassemble the system and clean the console, handpiece, and components.

Disassembling the System

CUSA® Clarity Items to Keep and Discard Aer a Surgical Procedure

Keep Discard

Handpiece Nosecone

Contamination Guard Flue

EUTs (with less than 5 uses) EUTs (aer 5 uses)

Torque Base Tip Stylet

Footswitch Torque Wrench

Power Cord

Sterilization Tray Aspiration Canister

CUSA Quick Connect™
Cartridge and Tubing Set

Irrigation Supply

Specimen Trap (if used)

Single Use Tip

Disassembling the Handpiece

1. Remove the irrigation tubing from the clip at the
base of the handpiece.

2. Remove the handpiece cable from the aspiration
tubing clips.

3. Remove the aspiration tubing from the aspiration
port at the base of the handpiece.

4. Remove the irrigation tubing from the Luer fiing
on the handpiece flue.

2

Integra® CUSA® Clarity – Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator System

Disassembling, Cleaning, and Sterilizing the System

5. Slide the flue off of the nosecone base along the tip. 6. Twist off the nosecone counter-clockwise until it unlocks.

7. Slide the nosecone off the tip.

9. Hold the handpiece in the base and place the torque
wrench (color side towards handpiece) over the tip.

To avoid product damage, always use the torque base

CAUTION

to hold the handpiece while using the torque wrench to
tighten or loosen the tip. Avoid over torqueing the tip.

8. Place the handpiece on the torque base as shown and make
sure that the 2 flat metal sides fit snugly in the metal slot at
the end of the base.

10. Rotate the torque wrench counter-clockwise.

11. Unthread the tip from the handpiece connecting
body by turning the tip counter-clockwise by hand.

12. Discard the items (listed in the table in “CUSA® Clarity Items to Keep and Discard Aer a Surgical Procedure” on page 2)

in compliance with hospital policy for contaminated waste.

3