BACKGROUND The reprocessing of medical endoscopes is carried out using automatic cleaning and disinfection machines. The documentation and archiving of records of properly conducted reprocessing procedures is the last and increasingly important part of the reprocessing cycle for flexible endoscopes. METHODS This report describes a new computer program designed to monitor and document the auto...

Mobile transactions for updating spatial data are long-lived transactions that update local copies of the mobile platforms on disconnection. Since a mobile transaction is physically separated from its global transaction, the concurrent updates of mobile transactions should be merged into the global database after committing. Validation-based schemes, which are well-known to be appropriate for m...

Question " For adults with any mental health disorder other than Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, how effective is Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, compared to any other intervention, for improving patient outcomes? " Patients: Adults with a mental health disorder other than Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Intervention: Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Com...

BACKGROUND Most cases of microbial transmission to patients via contaminated endoscopes have resulted from nonadherence to reprocessing guidelines. We evaluated the occurrence, features, and implications of reprocessing lapses to gauge the nature and breadth of the problem in the context of widely available and accepted practice guidelines. METHODS We examined peer-reviewed and non-peer-revie...

● The beneficial role of GI endoscopy for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of many digestive diseases and cancer is well established. Like many sophisticated medical devices, the endoscope is a complex, reusable instrument that requires reprocessing before being used on subsequent patients. The most commonly used methods for reprocessing endoscopes result in high-level disinfection. To ...

Testing and restoring technical-functional safety is an essential part of medical device reprocessing. Technical functional tests have to be carried out on the medical device in the course of the validation of reprocessing procedures. These ensure (in addition to the hygiene tests) that the reprocessing procedure is suitable for the medical device. Functional tests are, however, also a part of ...

Healthcare is expensive for a large proportion of the population in spite of high per capita income and good health insurance penetration. In an effort to reduce cost of the procedure, reprocessing of devices was started in the late 1970s. Reprocessing practice includes various measures such as proper cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization procedures. As reprocessing is aimed at reducing cos...