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Olympus | Endo Safestack
How do endoscopes get damaged? How do contaminated scopes get
confused with clean scopes? Olympus has partnered with Meditech
and is addressing those issues with a new transport system designed
to prevent damage and make it easier to keep track of which scopes
are clean and which aren't.
Whether dirty or clean, scopes are carried in color-coded liners
(green for clean, red for dirty) and transported via a combination tray
and cart system that holds them securely in place. The cart is stabi-
lized with lockable castors and trays can be easily stacked via an
interlocking groove design.
So, there's no more banging scopes on doors, or piling scopes on
top of each other — actions that can lead to damage, confusion or
cross-contamination in busy procedure rooms and sterile processing
departments.
