Hospitals, day surgery units and instrument reprocessing departments use the O 176 to prepare lumens in instruments from minimally invasive surgery, arthroscopy and urology. Reprocessing technicians and theatre staff load it, and the connected instruments return clean and dry for the next list. Spray jets, funnels, silicone hoses and irrigation sleeves are delivered with the basket.
The O 176 suits departments that handle several specialities in one cycle. One upper level takes up to 10 lumened instruments, and 14 injector nozzles or funnels connect them. Inserts sit on the left, where the vertical clearance is 360 ± 20 mm, and hollow instruments up to 500 mm long sit on the right. The two sides keep inserts and long hollow instruments in separate zones of the basket.
Each channel can be matched to a fitting. Spray jets of 2.5 mm and 4 mm are supplied; injector nozzles cover 2.5 × 60 mm and 4 × 110 mm, and the E 454 nozzle serves trocar sleeves of 10 to 15 mm. Irrigation sleeves with caps and silicone hoses with female Luer Lock adapters are included, and four funnels take the remaining items.
The basket is made for the Miele PG 8535 and PG 8536 and loads into the upper level. A connection for hot air drying is built in, so the programme can end with drying. The basket is made of stainless steel, weighs 4.8 kg net and measures 531 × 475 × 409 mm. Packed, it measures 530 × 400 × 545 mm and weighs 6.5 kg gross.