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How Safe Are Your Patients? - June 2016 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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you might as well not even bother. Liquid, steam or gas won't penetrate debris and organic material that remain on or in an endoscope or an instrument, rendering the sterilization process incomplete and ineffec- tive. In addition to stressing the importance of pre-cleaning and clean- ing, consider products that validate the cleaning process. After all, there's only so much visual observation you can do with lumened scopes. OSM J U N E 2 0 1 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y. N E T • 1 1 7 Ms. Segal (info@iccs-home.com) is president of Infection Control Consulting Services, which provides infection prevention and infection control assistance to a wide variety of healthcare organizations.

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