What is behind the chest pain? Rare esophageal hematoma caused by betel nut: A case report [PDF]
DEN OpenThis case report reported a case of huge esophageal hematoma caused by chewing betel nut. The patient was admitted to the hospital due to chest pain. After a multidisciplinary diagnosis by the Department of Gastroenterology, Cardiology, and Radiology, it
Chundi Guan +2 more
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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 +4 more
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Endoscope reprocessing: Retrospective analysis of 90,311 samples [PDF]
Endoscopy International Open, 2023 Background and study aims The contamination level of ready-to-use endoscopes published in the literature varies from 0.4 % to 49.0 %. Unfortunately, the comparison and the interpretation of these results are quite impossible, given the limited number of ...
Lionel Pineau
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Gastrointestinal endoscopy capacity in Eastern Africa [PDF]
Endoscopy International Open, 2021 Background and study aims Limited evidence suggests that endoscopy capacity in sub-Saharan Africa is insufficient to meet the levels of gastrointestinal disease.
Michael Mwachiro +16 more
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Gastrointestinal endoscope contamination rates – elevators are not only to blame: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Endoscopy International Open, 2022 Background and study aims Duodenoscopes that are contaminated due to inadequate reprocessing are well-documented. However, studies have demonstrated poor reprocessing of other kinds of endoscopes as well, including echoendoscopes, gastroscopes, and ...
Hemant Goyal +7 more
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Effects of disposable pull-through brush types for reprocessing of flexible endoscopes in clinical environment [PDF]
Infection Prevention in PracticeSummary: Evaluating the effectiveness of different brush types used during the cleaning and reprocessing of flexible endoscopes is challenging. This study compared the yield of microbial growth from endoscopes that had been used clinically before and ...
Remus O. Anders +5 more
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A prospective, quasi-experimental study on the efficacy of a novel double-headed endoscope cleaning brush for cleaning flexible endoscopes [PDF]
BMC GastroenterologyBackground The most important step in endoscope retreatment is careful manual cleaning before disinfection. Selecting the proper brushes is critical to disinfection.
Rui Shen +8 more
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SG-APSIC1058: Microbiological surveillance of endoscopes in a Singapore tertiary-care academic hospital: A retrospective study from 2018 to 2021 [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023 Objectives: Improper reprocessing of endoscopes may result in healthcare-associated infections. Regular microbiological surveillance is an important means of evaluating the quality of endoscope reprocessing. We evaluated the effectiveness of reprocessing
Zhimin Zhang +6 more
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Implementation of a Microbiological Surveillance Protocol in a Portuguese Tertiary Care Academic Endoscopy Unit [PDF]
GE: Portuguese Journal of GastroenterologyIntroduction: International societies recommend microbiological surveillance of endoscopes to reduce the incidence of endoscope-associated infections, particularly for duodenoscopes.
Cristiana Monteiro +11 more
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