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Not the Retiring Type - January 2015 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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3 6 O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 5 Y ou probably reprocess your unused endoscopes weekly, but how do you track which scopes have been used and reprocessed and which haven't? We came up with a simple sys- tem. Using a white industrial marker, we number the grip section of each of our 14 scopes and use that number to track usage and repro- cessing in our daily log. This way, we know that we have to reprocess any scope that hasn't been used in a week. Vickie Coker, rn The Gastro-Intestinal Center and Endoscopy Center of Little Rock Little Rock, Ark vickie@gastroarkansas.com I D E A S T H A T W O R K U N U S E D S C O P E S Number Your Scopes So You Know When It's Time to Reprocess z KeeP taBS Number your scopes so you know when it's time to reprocess them.

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