Practical Experience of Endoscope Reprocessing and Working-Platform Disinfection in COVID-19 Patients: A Report from Guangdong China during the Pandemic

BACKGROUND: No consensus exists regarding which procedures should be performed to disinfect endoscopes and working platforms after COVID-19 patients have undergone endoscopy. METHODS: We analyzed the disinfection quality of endoscopes and working platforms after 11 COVID-19 patients had undergone en...

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Autores principales: Lin, Xianqi, Zhang, Zhenyi, Gao, Minzhao, Zhang, Zhenling, Lin, Zhidong, Huang, Siwen, Ren, Jiangnan, Luo, Meijuan, Xu, Xiaoqing, Chen, Guilan, Chen, Hongjun, Lai, Renxu, Wu, Xiaochun, Zhang, Lihua, Li, Xiaofeng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33488698
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/9869742
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: No consensus exists regarding which procedures should be performed to disinfect endoscopes and working platforms after COVID-19 patients have undergone endoscopy. METHODS: We analyzed the disinfection quality of endoscopes and working platforms after 11 COVID-19 patients had undergone endoscopy. CONCLUSIONS: For endoscopic preprocessing at the bedside, a key disinfection step is using a multienzyme stock solution. The nucleic acid tests for endoscopists, washers, endoscopes, and working platforms were all negative. Based on our experience with the 11 COVID-19 patients who had undergone endoscopy, we provide an endoscopic reprocessing method for the bedside endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 patients for reference.

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