Sharp instruments may be sterilized with-: (A) Radiation, (B) Lysol, (C) Hot air, (D) Any of the above
Answer is C. Hot air is useful for sterilizing aicles such as glassware, syringes, swabs, dressing, French chalk oil , Vaseline and sharp instruments. The drawback of hot air is that it has no penetrating power and is not suitable for disinfection of bulky aicles such as mattresses Ref: 25th edition, Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, Page no. 140