What's new in reprocessing endoscopes: Are we going to ensure "the needs of the patient come first" by shifting from disinfection to sterilization?
Infection
Instrument reprocessing
Patient safety
high-level disinfection
Journal
American journal of infection control
ISSN: 1527-3296
Titre abrégé: Am J Infect Control
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8004854
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2019
06 2019
Historique:
entrez:
1
6
2019
pubmed:
31
5
2019
medline:
29
7
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Millions of gastrointestinal endoscopes are performed each year in the United States. Gastrointestinal endoscopes become highly contaminated during use (ie, internal channels contain 7-10-log
Identifiants
pubmed: 31146853
pii: S0196-6553(19)30058-6
doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.01.017
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
A62-A66Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Inc.