Infectious complications in gastrointestinal endoscopy and their prevention.
Gastrointestinal endoscopes are medical devices that have been associated with outbreaks of health care-associated infections. Because of the severity and limited treatment options of infections caused by multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, considerable attention has been paid to detection and prevention of these post-endoscopic outbreaks. Endoscope reprocessing involves cleaning, high-level disinfection/sterilization followed by rinsing and drying before storage. Failure of the decontamination process implies the risk of settlement of biofilm producing species in endoscope channels. This review covers the infectious complications in gastrointestinal endoscopy and their prevention and highlights the problem of infection risk associated with different steps of endoscope reprocessing.
['Kovaleva|Julia|J|']
D018441:Biofilms D003428:Cross Infection D004203:Disinfection D020776:Endoscopes, Gastrointestinal D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal D006801:Humans
Endoscopy Gastrointestinal endoscopes Disinfection Sterilization Biofilms Cross infection Disease outbreaks