Colonoscope

Reprocessing

Colonoscopes may have moisture, debris, discoloration, scratches, channel shredding, and visible evidence of biofilm or simethicone residue trapped in lumens after cleaning. The endoinspect is perfect to visually inspect colonoscope lumens.

EI-V20190 Endoinspect

Dirty Scopes

Infection risk from contaminated equipment

“…according to a Johns Hopkins and McKinsey & Co. investigation in the current issue of the medical journal Gut. An estimated 15,000 to 25,000 patients a year are getting infected from dirty scopes. The scope — a tube with a camera and light on the end — is complicated to clean.”

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.”

IAHCSMM

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

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

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.”

IAHCSMM

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