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ince dirty endoscopes should be pre-cleaned at the point of
use as part of the room turnover process, we want to make
sure we never accidentally bring a new patient into an
endoscopy room before our techs have had a chance to come in and
pre-clean the dirty scope from the previous case, transport it back to
the reprocessing area and perform between-patient cleaning. The
solution? We put pre-timeout flip signs on every endoscopy room
door. Until the endoscope is actually removed from the room and the
room is clean, the indicator on the door says "dirty." When the tech
removes the scope and the room is cleaned, the sign gets flipped over
to "clean." It's an extra check in the process that works really well.
Frank J. Chapman, MBA
Ohio Gastroenterology Group
Columbus, Ohio
frank.chapman@gibenchmarking.com
CLEAN STARTS
Protect Patients from Accidental Exposure
Frank
J.
Chapman,
MBA
z SCOPED OUT Our flip sign ensures that dirty
endoscopes leave the room before patients enter.