Multisociety guideline on reprocessing flexible gastrointestinal endoscopes: 2011

BT Petersen, J Chennat, J Cohen, PB Cotton… - Gastrointestinal …, 2011 - giejournal.org
The beneficial role of GI endoscopy for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of many
digestive diseases and cancer is well established. Like many sophisticated medical devices,
the endoscope is a complex, reusable instrument that requires reprocessing before being
used on subsequent patients. The most commonly used methods for reprocessing
endoscopes result in high-level disinfection. To date, all published occurrences of pathogen
transmission related to GI endoscopy have been associated with failure to follow established …
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