Infection Control

Endoscope Reprocessing Again Near the Top of Health Technology Hazards List for 2017

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A leading organization again named Endoscope Reprocessing one of its top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2017. For several years now, ECRI Institute has listed Endoscope Reprocessing near the top of its annual list of health technology hazards. ECRI (www.ecri.org), a nonprofit organization, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research to healthcare […]

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Silence on Endoscope-Related Outbreaks Continues

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Senior executives at Olympus have recently declined to make any comment regarding emails that have surfaced in an investigation by Kaiser Health News and the Los Angeles Times. The emails seem to point to Olympus managers treating the infection risk to patients due to improper cleaning of duodenoscopes as “acceptable.” This article found at Kaiser

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Preventing 5 Common Mistakes in Endoscope Reprocessing

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Progress in patient safety has been a challenge in many areas of the hospital and many facilities have made significant changes in their practice of reprocessing endoscopes.  With this said, guidelines and practice are in a continuous state of change. It is the responsibility of the hospital to make sure they do not become too

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Endoscope Reprocessing Hazards – Thousands of Patients Impacted Annually 5 Links

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Want to get more insights about RFID & Healthcare?  Follow us on twitter @mobileaspects   Now Follow these stories with Hashtags! #RFID #SGNA2012 #HIT #Endoscope “10 veterans test positive for hepatitis after colonoscopies” – USA Today 2009 A headline such as the one above appearing in a 2009 USA Today article is a nightmarish scenario

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Customers in the News: New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Advancing The Use of Flexible Endoscopes

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** Each month Mobile Aspects likes to recognize the hard work of its customers as they continuously strive to deliver the highest quality of care. Endoscopy – the use of a long, flexible tube with a camera at its tip to peer inside a patient – has been used to help doctors assess and diagnose

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ECRI Lists "Cross Contamination from Flexible Endoscopes" in Top 3 Health Technology Hazards 2011

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Patient cross contamination from the improper handling and reprocessing of flexible endoscopes is a serious issue today and was listed at #3 on ECRI’s list of Top Ten Health Technology Hazards for 2011.  In fact there is no such thing as a minor slip up when it comes to following endoscope reprocessing guidelines, the procedure

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How RFID Will Prevent The Next Endoscope Infection Crisis

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“10 veterans test positive for hepatitis after colonoscopies” – USA Today A headline such as the one above appearing in a 2009 USA Today article is a major loss for everyone involved.  Unfortunately the trend of recent endoscope infection scares is on the rise after hospitals in Escondido, California and Hennepin County, MN had to

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