Duodenoscope reprocessing: risk and options coming into view

In recent months, medical reports and intense media interest have highlighted the problem of patient-to-patient transmission of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaciae (CRE) and other multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) by contaminated duodenoscopes during ERCP. Details of a non-CRE MDRO outbreak were recently published by the staff of the King County Health Department and the Virginia Mason Medical Center (VMMC) in Seattle, Washington.1 In this issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Ross and colleagues of VMMC outline their institutional response to the outbreak and the results of their practice of universal duodenoscope culture and quarantine over the past year.
Source: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Original article Source Type: research