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The Clinical Risks of Infection Associated with Endoscopy

Author(s) -

Alistair Cowen

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

canadian journal of gastroenterology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1916-7237

pISSN - 0835-7900

DOI - 10.1155/2001/691584

Subject(s) - medicine , sterilization (economics) , intensive care medicine , endoscopy , infection risk , transmission (telecommunications) , risk of infection , infection control , antibiotic prophylaxis , antibiotics , surgery , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , electrical engineering , monetary economics , economics , foreign exchange market , genetics , engineering , foreign exchange

The cleaning of flexible endoscopes is difficult and time consuming. Any method of attempted sterilization or high level disinfection will fail if prior cleaning has been defective. Inadequate reprocessing of endoscopes may result in patient to patient transmission of serious bacterial and viral diseases or infection with endemic hospital pathogens. Antibiotic prophylaxis is required to prevent septicemia and bacterial endocarditis in high risk patients undergoing specific endoscopic procedures. Prevention of serious endoscopy-associated clinical infections requires strict compliance with detailed reprocessing protocols by specially trained nursing staff.

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