本推荐规程为牙医和医生办公室、实验室、门诊诊所和其他医疗机构使用的去污和干热灭菌程序提供了指南。本指南旨在通过确定适用于该灭菌方法的特殊注意事项，并提供关于正确使用台式干热灭菌处理设备的建议，来提高无菌保证。本推荐规程还包括设施设计考虑、人员考虑、工作实践和其他影响无菌保证的变量。

This recommended practice provides guidelines for decontamination and dry heat sterilization procedures used in dentists' and physicians' offices, laboratories, ambulatory care clinics, and other health care facilities. These guidelines are intended to rpomote the assurance of sterility by identifying the special considerations that apply to this method of sterilization and by providing recommendations on the proper use of table-top dry heat sterilization processing equipment. this recommended practice also covers facility desin considerations, personnel considerations, work practices, and other variables that affect sterility assurance.