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Endoscope Care 2020
In a pandemic world, endoscope care should be at or near center stage
by Rick Dana Barlow N
ever forget: Even during a global pandemic, the Sterile Processing & Distribution (SPD) function, practiced
by dedicated departments under a variety of names, represents one of the most important procedures in a healthcare organization. If you deign to question or smirk at that factual
and realistic observation, then try this: Send all SPD professionals home for two days on a brief paid sabbatical as an educational lesson for you. See what happens. If you’re in the C-suite, you can expect a fl urry of calls from outraged doctors and nurses. If that doesn’t electrify your malaise, wait until you see the corporate attorney’s line show up on your call list. SPD matters. That’s why Healthcare Purchasing News has been covering this essential, instrumental function and dedicated department of people consistently and without interruption since the late 1970s. HPN has featured the “CS/SPD Department of the Year” for the last 27 years. For fi ve years prior to that, HPN recognized the
“CS Manager of the Year.” Next month we start saluting “SPD Operations Worth Watching.” And we’ve dedicated space annually in the November edition on the topic of “Endoscope Care” for the last 16 of HPN’s 43 years in print. Because HPN values SPD. Historically, HPN’s annual Endoscope Care
coverage explores a wide range of topics span- ning the fundamental and foundational to the advanced and esoteric (for the specialized). HPN reaches out to a wide range of subject
matter experts to provide and share what you’ve come to expect to read – keen and useful in- sights and opinions about how to do what you do even better. This year is no exception. On this page and on pages that follow you’ll be able to educate yourself and enjoy several stories on selected topics. But you also can find a wealth of useful
information at HPN Online (www.hpnonline. com). This includes a detailed feature on the key areas for continued improvement in each of the six steps in endoscope processing that
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HPN identifi es – with the added background context of the pandemic. Visit this link: https://
hpnonline.com/21157237. Further, be sure to check out HPN’s extensive coverage last year that features as an online exclusive, “The full scope of reprocessing endoscopes,” by clicking here:
https://www.hpnonline.com/21110528.
Continue reading … • Outlook Endoscopy: What’s next for endoscope reprocessing and device design? .....................................p. 29
• Techniques and tips for aeration, drying and storage ..................................................p. 42
• Why ergonomics should not be over - looked ...................................................p. 43
• The true colors of hydrogen peroxide steril- ization chemical indicator strips ..........p. 44
• Periscope: Color-coded standard needed for hydrogen peroxide sterilization indicator strips ......................................................p. 60
Whether in print, online, digital or broadcast, HPN has SPD covered.
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