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2009 Endoscope Maintenance Guide |
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Endoscopy drives patient care, revenue stream regardless of economic conditions by Rick Dana Barlow T here’s an old adage that if you take care of your tools they will take care of you. In hospital and outpatient surgical suites and operating rooms, the reciprocal effect is doubled because they take care of patients, too.Consequently, it’s logical and necessary for clinicians to take special care of their valuable surgical tools. And with more surgeries performed using minimally invasive techniques, which involve high-cost endoscopic devices, it’s also a financial no-brainer. That’s why Healthcare Purchasing News publishes its annual Endoscope Care Guide, a November edition staple for the last five years. We created it as a service for our readers to provide hard-working clinicians and administrators with useful information on cleaning, disinfecting, sterilizing and repairing all types of flexible and rigid endoscopes thoroughly, efficiently and cost-effectively. HPN’s exclusive guide also highlights and outlines the obvious, the hidden and overlooked dangers from improper cleaning, repair and storage, and identifies best practices for device longevity and reliability, which can produce high-quality patient care. We recruited experts and professionals from some of the leading companies that manufacture endoscopic products and offer endoscopic care services to share their insights and intelligence on keeping these costly surgical tools primed and ready for action all year long. So start reading and let the useful information at your fingertips on
the next few pages sink in. Your clinicians, patients and endoscopic tools
depend on it.
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