Last week, Alpa Patel, Senior Scientist at Nelson Laboratories, and Kaumudi Kulkarni, Manager of Research and Development at Healthmark Industries, hosted the live webinar Endoscope Microbial Surveillance Testing Made Easy. The webinar was attended live by infection prevention professionals, sterile processing professionals, nurse managers, laboratory professionals, and others who work in healthcare facilities and wanted to learn more about performing surveillance on endoscopes.
The webinar discusses the outbreaks that have been in the news over the past few years regarding contamination of flexible endoscopes, and the benefits of performing endoscope surveillance in a healthcare facility. An explanation of the organisms of concern is provided which allows Patel and Kulkarni to review the options for positive growth of the organisms. Basic tests methods for surveillance of flexible endoscopes are covered.
View the endoscope surveillance webinar, now available on demand.
