you might as well not even bother. Liquid, steam or gas won't penetrate
debris and organic material that remain on or in an endoscope or an
instrument, rendering the sterilization process incomplete and ineffec-
tive. In addition to stressing the importance of pre-cleaning and clean-
ing, consider products that validate the cleaning process. After all,
there's only so much visual observation you can do with lumened
scopes.
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Ms. Segal (info@iccs-home.com) is president of Infection Control Consulting
Services, which provides infection prevention and infection control assistance to a
wide variety of healthcare organizations.
