Glenys Harrington Gastrointestinal endoscopes are complex devices that can be difficult to clean and disinfect. Over the last few years there have been increasing reports of outbreaks associated with endoscopes in particular duodenoscopes which are used for endoscopic retrograde...
- November 6, 2016
Terry McAuley1 1 STEAM Consulting Pty Ltd, PO BOX 779 Endeavour Hills VIC 3802, terry@steamconsulting.com.au Over the past decade there have been some notable cases in which infection control breaches have occurred in endoscopy settings. Whilst some of the...
- August 31, 2016
Jocelyne M Basseal 1 and Susan Campbell Westerway 2, 1 Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM), Level 2, 511 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, NSW 2065 Email: j.basseal@asum.com.au 2 Faculty of Dentistry & Health Sciences, Charles Sturt University NSW AUSTRALIA As ultrasound technology...
- August 25, 2016
Dr Tony Speer 1 1 Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Vic, 3050. Tony.speer@mh.org.au Outbreaks of pseudomonas cholangitis after ERCP in the 1980s exposed a flaw in reprocessing – a failure to adequately dry endoscopes. Alcohol flush and forced air drying was...
- August 25, 2016