Help with flex df

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@DJ-2096

chlorhexidine seems to have almost entirely evaporated. Is it still safe to implant or is it probably contaminated?

Some more reading for you

@amal

Chlorhexidine is 4% but no the evaporation and crystalization is the mechanism used by iodine. Wet iodine does hardly anything. Chlorhexidine kills in contact. If the solution works it’s way out of a vial or sealed bag, the internal contents should be just as “clinically clean” for a pretty long while… those molecules are significantly smaller than bacteria and viruses.

@amal

It’ll come in a vial of chlorhexidine but if that evaporates and eeks out through the o-ring cap come install time then in theory the internal contents of the vial is still considered “clean”… so just keep it closed until installation time and you should be fine.

Expiry date on unimplanted implants?

I have 3 unimplanted DT implants that I’ll be keeping around until I find a meaningful use for them. One is a Flex-type in a plastic baggie with chlorhexidine, one is a glass tag in a small plastic sample vial also full of chlorhexidine, one is in an injector in a sealed packaging. The implants themselves will probably be fine for many years. I’m not so sure about the packaging though: do they fail over time? Does the chlorhexidine evaporate over time? I kept my doNExT about 2 months in the pl…