Infection control during GI endoscopy - ASGE

Communicationfrom the ASGEQ uality AssuranceIn endoscopy CommitteeGUIDELINEI nfection control during GI endoscopyPrepared by: ASGE QUALITY ASSURANCE IN endoscopy COMMITTEEA udrey H. Calderwood, MD, Lukejohn W. Day, MD, V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, James Collins, RN,Ralph David Hambrick, III, RN, Andrew S. Brock, MD, Nalini M. Guda, MD, Jonathan M. Buscaglia, MD,Bret T. Petersen, MD, Navtej S. Buttar, MD, Lauren G. Khanna, MD, Vladimir M. Kushnir, MD,Aparna Repaka, MD, Nicolas A. Villa, MD, Glenn M. Eisen, MD, MPH, ChairThis document was reviewed and approved by the Governing Board of the American Society for GastrointestinalEndoscopy (ASGE).The Quality Assurance in endoscopy Committee of theAmerican Society for Gastrointestinal endoscopy (ASGE)updated and revised this document, which was originallyprepared by The Standards of Practice Committee of theASGE and was published in preparing thisguideline, a search of the medical literature wasperformed by using PubMed, supplemented by accessingthe related-articles feature of PubMed.

publication of the Multisociety Guideline for Reprocessing of Flexible GI Endoscopes,3 which was updated in 20114 and in 2016.5 Historically, in the absence of defective equipment, reported cases of transmission of infection have resulted from failure to adhere to these guidelines. Since 2012, multiple U.S. and international medical

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