This one hour presentation by Stephen Kovach was presented at our Infection Prevention Strategies for Ambulatory Surgery Centersconference in April 2015. Stephen helps you understand how to make sure a scope is ready for your patient and gives some background information to make sure that your scope is clean enough and safe to be used.

Learning Objectives:

• To know what your customer knows about your process.
• To understand the anatomy of scopes.
• To know the literature on the issues with flexible scopes.
• To know the evidence-based clinically relevant products on monitoring flexible scopes.
• To know possible quality improvement programs to help ensure your scope is patient ready.
• Understanding that if it is not clean, it may not be able to be high-level disinfected or sterilized.