Gastroscope

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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.

EI-V12120 Endoinspect

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Dirty Scopes

hospital used dirty gastroscopes on almost 1,000 patients

(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

What's in your endoscope

"...an average of 15 percent of flexible endoscopes used to examine GI tracts and colons at five hospitals were harboring "bio-dirt"—cells and other material from previously examined patients. This was even after the instruments had been cleaned."

Dirty Endoscopes

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
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ANSI/AAMI ST91:2015

“Tools such as video borescopes of an appropriate dimension (length and diameter) may be used to visually inspect the internal channels of some medical devices.”

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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

“…an average of 15 percent of flexible endoscopes used to examine GI tracts and colons at five hospitals were harboring “bio-dirt”—cells 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

“Tools such as video borescopes of an appropriate dimension (length and diameter) may be used to
visually inspect the internal channels of some medical devices.”

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

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