Recent reports of multidrug-resistant infections related to contaminated endoscopes, which have intricate mechanisms and channels that are especially difficult to clean, have raised awareness about the necessity for meticulous reprocessing of all types of endoscopes to prevent the transmission of pathogens to patients.
In response to concerns from various countries about inadequately reprocessed endoscopes and to prevent further transmittal of infections by endoscopes, the ISC Infection Prevention & Control Working Group prioritized this issue in a meeting earlier this year and created a survey on current Endoscope Reprocessing Practices that could be used to compare such practices of institutions around the globe.
We would ask you to share the link to the on-line survey and encourage as many of your colleagues from various health care facilities to complete this. To complete this survey you need to be involved in Endoscope reprocessing activities or know the guidelines and structure of your institutions with regard to Endoscope reprocessing.
Thank you for your participation and for sharing the link!
Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6ZSGF5L
This checklist was created by the following members of ISC IPC working group. Andreas Voss, Alex Friedrich, Peter Collignon, Moi Lin Ling, Brenda Ang, Wing Hong Seto, Paul Tambyah, Eli Perencevich, Marin Schweizer, Leanne Frazer, Achilleas Gikas, Tom Gottlieb, Joost Hopman, Nikki Kenters, Inge Huijskens, Kalisvar Marimuthu, Rehab El-Sokkary, Yogandree Ramsamy, Margaret Vos, Ermira Tartari, Debkishore Gupta.
