Eligible for 1.0 credit hours

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http://www.endonurse.com/pdf/Flexible%20_endoscopy.pdf

Proper maintenance and reprocessing of flexible endoscopes is a necessity for any busy endoscopy practice. It is essential for insuring patient safety while limiting healthcare delivery costs.  Failure to properly clean endoscopes has considerable consequences for both the patient and the healthcare provider.  Although pathogen transmission in endoscopy is rare, documented cases have been invariably linked to breaches in reprocessing, with the majority being associated with a failure to properly clean the endoscope according to manufacturer’s instructions.  Healthcare facilities must expend considerable resources to investigate cases of both patient infection and pseudo-infection related to inadequate endoscope cleaning.  In addition, the identification of improper endoscope cleaning as part of an infection control investigation may lead to patient notification and testing, a consequence of which may be multiple regulatory audits and immeasurable damage to the healthcare provider’s reputation.  Also, improper reprocessing may result in endoscope damage and higher repair costs for the facility. Overall, failure to properly clean endoscopes produces a myriad of avoidable consequences that drain resources from effective healthcare delivery.  This Webinar will identify common issues and best practices in endoscope reprocessing.

The Webinar will be available on-demand -- which means that once it is posted online on July 18, it will be available for the next full year, any time of the day or night. You can watch the Webinar as many times as you like.

Speakers
Laura Storms-Tyler, Vice President, Quality and Regulatory Affairs, Olympus America
Bradley Catalone, Ph.D., Director, Research, Olympus America