Managing Endoscopes

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** Each month Mobile Aspects likes to recognize the hard work of its customers as they continuously strive to deliver the highest quality of care. Endoscopy – the use of a long, flexible tube with a camera at its tip to peer inside a patient – has been used to help doctors assess and diagnose

Patient cross contamination from the improper handling and reprocessing of flexible endoscopes is a serious issue today and was listed at #3 on ECRI’s list of Top Ten Health Technology Hazards for 2011.  In fact there is no such thing as a minor slip up when it comes to following endoscope reprocessing guidelines, the procedure

“10 veterans test positive for hepatitis after colonoscopies” – USA Today A headline such as the one above appearing in a 2009 USA Today article is a major loss for everyone involved.  Unfortunately the trend of recent endoscope infection scares is on the rise after hospitals in Escondido, California and Hennepin County, MN had to