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This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Baishideng Publishing Group Inc, 7041 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 160, Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA |
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http://www.wjgnet.com |
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology |
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High-level disinfection of gastrointestinal endoscope reprocessing
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Invited Manuscript |
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King-Wah Chiu, Lung-Sheng Lu and Shue-Shian Chiou |
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| The gastrointestinal endoscopy unit of Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan |
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King-Wah Chiu, MD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 123 Ta-Pei Road, Niao-Sung, Kaohsiung 833,
Taiwan. kwchu@adm.cgmh.org.tw
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| Key Words |
Key words: Automated endoscope reprocessor; Bacterial culture; Gastrointestinal endoscopy; High-level disinfection; Liquid chemical germicide |
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High-level decontamination processes to ensure iatrogenic infection prevention in the delivery of high-quality gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy services are essential. There are three important steps that must be highlighted: manual washing, automated endoscope washer reprocessing and adequate drying/storage after rinsing. Our experimental data demonstrated that surveillance culture monitoring that can detect unsuccessful decontamination provides a much greater assurance of quality control for high level disinfection. This monitoring should be taken into account in order to ensure safety when a patient receives GI endoscope service. Randomized surveillance culture monitoring of the reprocessing process in each month is important for quality control and in ensuring patients’ safety.
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2015-01-20 21:05 |
| Citation |
Chiu KW, Lu LS, Chiou SS. High-level disinfection of gastroin-testinal endoscope reprocessing. World J Exp Med 2015; 5(1): 33-39 |
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http://www.wjgnet.com/2220-315X/full/v5/i1/33.htm |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5493/wjem.v5.i1.33 |
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