Thursday, April 14th 2PM ET with Mary Ann Drosnock & John Whelan

Objectives: 

  • Discuss the updated national standard, ANSI/AAMI ST91, highlighting key differences between the 2015 version and latest update.
  • Identify current best practices in the processing of flexible endoscopes as outlined in ST91 and other guidelines
  • Outline how engineering quality assurance parameters into endoscope processing can help to reduce Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) and Surgical Site Infections (SSI) and help to determine if an endoscope is patient ready