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Does the Reprocessing of Endoscopes Have to Take Place Immediately after Pre-Cleaning? A First Evaluation [PDF]

Clinical Endoscopy, 2021
Background/Aims The recommendations on the time interval between pre-cleaning and reprocessing of endoscopes differ in international guidelines, with a low level of evidence.
Vanessa M Eichel, Jonas M Jabs, Samy Unser, Nico T Mutters, Martin Scherrer   +4 more
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Novel technology for automated cleaning of flexible endoscopes

Endoscopy International Open
Reprocessing of flexible endoscopes is a multi-stage system with many sequential stages. Errors in any one of the stages can result in microbial contamination that persists in patient ready endoscopes despite full reprocessing.
Michelle J. Alfa
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Best Practices for Measuring the Modulation Transfer Function of Video Endoscopes

Sensors
Endoscopes are crucial for assisting in surgery and disease diagnosis, including the early detection of cancer. The effective use of endoscopes relies on their optical performance, which can be characterized with a series of metrics such as resolution ...
Quanzeng Wang, Chinh Tran, Peter Burns, Nader M. Namazi   +3 more
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ATP measurement as method to monitor the quality of reprocessing flexible endoscopes

GMS German Medical Science, 2004
Insufficient performance of cleaning and disinfection of flexible endoscopes can pose an infection risk to patients. Actually quality of reprocessing is checked by performing microbiological cultures. Unfortunately, their results are not available on the
Hansen, Dorothea, Benner, Daniel, Hilgenhöner, Martin, Leisebein, Therese, Brauksiepe, Andreas, Popp, Walter   +5 more
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Improving the Reprocessing Quality of Flexible Thermolabile Endoscopes: How to Learn from Mistakes [PDF]

, 2021
Background: Failure in the reprocessing of thermolabile flexible endoscopes has been reported as one of the most important threats to patient health. Method: A case report and observational study was conducted, from August 2014 to December 2019, in the ...
Giulia Gemignani, Grazia Luchini, Beatrice Casini, Emanuele Marciano, Guglielmo Arzilli, Michele Totaro, Gaetano Privitera, Anna Laura Costa, Maria Luisa Cristina, Benedetta Tuvo, Giuliana Del Magro, Angelo Baggiani   +11 more
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Small-caliber endoscopes are more fragile than conventional endoscopes

Endoscopy International Open, 2019
Background and study aims The repair costs of gastrointestinal endoscopes account for a significant proportion of the total budget of an endoscopy unit. This study evaluated the repair costs of small-caliber endoscopes and conventional endoscopes used in
Toshihiro Nishizawa, Kosuke Sakitani, Hidekazu Suzuki, Tadahiro Yamakawa, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Shuntaro Yoshida, Yousuke Nakai, Keisuke Hata, Hirotoshi Ebinuma, Kazuhiko Koike, Osamu Toyoshima   +10 more
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Endowashers: an overlooked risk for possible post-endoscopic infections. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Prevention of post-endoscopy infections is an important objective to assure patient safety. Endowashers, or high throughput irrigation water pumps, are a frequently used device on endoscopes.
Möller, Hiltraud, Räther, M, Kober, Paul, Duty, Oliver, Poldrack, R, Räther, Malte, Schwarzer, H, Hübner, Nils-Olaf, Schröder, LW, Duty, O, Assadian, O, Sinha, J, Schwarzer, Heinrich, Assadian, Ojan, Sinha, Jeanette, Lerch, Markus M, Schröder, Lutz Werner, Hübner, NO, Möller, H, Lerch, MM, Poldrack, Rosmarie, Kober, P, Kramer, Axel, Kramer, A   +23 more
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Tapered multi-core fiber for lensless endoscopes

, 2022
We present a novel fiber-optic component, a "tapered multi-core fiber (MCF)", designed for integration into ultra-miniaturized endoscopes for minimally invasive two-photon point-scanning imaging and to address the power delivery issue that has faced MCF ...
Rosa Cossart (3211896), Fatima El Moussawi (12359308), Damien Labat (13260018), Esben Ravn Andresen (3958379), Géraud Bouwmans (3958382), Matthias Hofer (4226587), Olivier Vanvincq (5317352), Andy Cassez (2255218), Hervé Rigneault (2482108), Siddharth Sivankutty (3959567)   +9 more
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Efficacy of a novel channel-cleaning ball brush for endoscope reprocessing: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

Clinical Endoscopy, 2022
Background/Aims Endoscopic channels are difficult to clean and can cause infection transmission. We examined the effectiveness of a newly developed channel-cleaning ball brush (BB), which is sucked into the endoscopic channel and scrapes and cleans the ...
Kwang Hyun Chung, Jeong Don Chae, Wonho Choe, Hyo Young Lee, Il Hwan Oh, Byoung Kwan Son   +5 more
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Measuring Image Quality of ENT Chip-on-tip Endoscopes [PDF]

, 2021
ENT-flexible endoscopes are important for nasopharyngoscopy examinations. However, hospitals do not apply standardized tests to assess the image quality of the endoscopes they use or consider to purchase. The authors evaluated the Rez Checker Target Nano
Hakkesteegt, M. M., de Groot, J. G., Metselaar, R. M., M. M. Hakkesteegt, J. G. de Groot, Geleijnse, G., G. Geleijnse, R. M. Metselaar   +7 more
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