readily available when patients have a known high level of bioburden
or during off-hour procedures — to keep up with the Saturday
colonoscopy trend, for example — when staffing the reprocessing
room might be more expensive than paying between $300 and $400
for disposable scopes.
Reprocessing valve caps correctly — they must be removed, manually
cleaned and undergo high-level disinfection — add to the responsibili-
ties of your techs, who are under constant pressure to perform every
step of the reprocessing process correctly every time. Disposable valves
are available that eliminate the need to perform these steps — and per-
form them properly — during scope reprocessing. If you're running a
high-volume facility with scopes constantly cycling through the repro-
cessing area, disposable valves can hold a lot of value in the long-run.
