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Helping central service and sterile process departments fight Hospital
Acquired Infections (HAI) with the best borescope to inspect medical
devices and endoscope lumens visually.
Fiberscopes:
Video Borescopes:
Gastroscopes may have moisture, debris, discoloration, scratches, channel shredding, and visible evidence of biofilm trapped in lumens after cleaning. The endoinspect is perfect to visually inspect gastroscope lumens.
(Reuters) – An unnamed hospital in Oklahoma used contaminated gastroscopes in procedures performed on nearly a thousand patients in recent months, device maker Pentax Medical told U.S. regulators last month, putting the patients at risk of exposure to bacteria that can cause infections. Source: Reuters
“…an average of 15 percent of flexible endoscopes used to examine GI tracts and colons at five hospitals were harboring “bio-dirt”âcells and other material from previously examined patients. This was even after the instruments had been cleaned.”
The discovery of dirty endoscopes has previously led hospitals to issue alarming warnings to thousands of endoscopy patients that they should be tested for diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B and C
âTools such as video borescopes of an appropriate dimension (length and diameter) may be used to
visually inspect the internal channels of some medical devices.â
Lumens pose
a cleaning challenge because of their narrow structure that prevents visualization during the cleaning;
therefore, it is important to always check lumens for cleanliness after cleaning. Visual inspection of
lumens can be accomplished using a borescope
Helping central service and sterile process departments fight Hospital
Acquired Infections (HAI) with the best borescope to inspect medical
devices and endoscope lumens visually.