Infections related to endoscopic procedures

AGENCIES

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Decontamination and reprocessing of medical devices for health-care facilities (2016)

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) / US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

• Duodenoscope Surveillance Sampling & Culturing. Reducing the Risks of Infection (2018)

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)

• Guideline for disinfection and sterilization in healthcare facilities (2008)

World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) / World Endoscopy Organisation (WEO)

• Global guidelines, endoscope disinfection - a resource-sensitive approach (2011)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)

• Guidelines for safety in the gastrointestinal endoscopy unit (2014)

• Infection control during gastrointestinal endoscopy (2008)

American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), with other professional societies

• Multisociety guideline on reprocessing flexible gastrointestinal endoscopes: 2016 update

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)

• APIC guideline for infection prevention and control in flexible endoscopy (2000)

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)

• Flexible and semi-rigid endoscope processing in health care facilities (2015)

Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN)

• Guideline for processing flexible endoscopes (2016)

British Thoracic Society (BTS)

• BTS Guideline for diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy in adults (2013)

• BTS Quality standards for diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy in adults (2014)

European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) / European Society of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Nurses and Associates (ESGENA)

• Prevention on multidrug-resistant infections from contaminated duodenoscopes: Position statement of the ESGE and the ESGENA (2017)

• ESGE-ESGENA guideline: Cleaning and disinfection in gastrointestinal endoscopy (update 2008)

• ESGE–ESGENA guideline for quality assurance in reprocessing: Microbiological surveillance testing in endoscopy (2007)

• ESGE/ESGENA guideline for process validation and routine testing for reprocessing endoscopes in washer-disinfectors, according to the European Standard prEN ISO 15883 parts 1, 4 and 5 (2007)

EU/EEA COUNTRIES

Denmark

• National infection control guidelines – For reprocessing of flexible endoscopes(Statens Serum Institute 2013)
  Nationale Infektionshygiejniske Retningslinjer – For genbehandling af fleksible endoskoper (Statens Serum Institut, 2013)

Finland

• Cleaning instructions and disinfection of flexible endoscopes (Finnish Gastrointestinal Society, 2013)
  Tapuisien tähystimien puhdistus- ja desinfektio-ohje (Suomen Gastroenterologiahoitajat ry. Desinfektiotyöryhmä, 2013)

Germany

• Hygiene requirements when reprocessing medical devices (Robert Koch Institute and Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices, 2012)
  Anforderungen an die hygiene bei der aufbereitung von medizinprodukten (Kommission für Krankenhaushygiene und Infektionsprävention beim Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) und des Bundesinstitutes für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, 2012)

Netherlands

• Heat-sensitive, flexible endoscopes (Infection Prevention Working Party, 2016)
  Thermolabiele, flexibele endoscopen (Werkgroep Infectie Preventie, 2016)

COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE EU/EEA

Australia

• Infection control in endoscopy (Gastroenterological Society of Australia / Gastroenterological Nurses College of Australia, 2010, reprint 2011)Infection control in endoscopy

Canada

• Infection prevention and control guideline for flexible gastrointestinal endoscopy and flexible bronchoscopy (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2010)
  Infection prevention and control guideline for flexible gastrointestinal endoscopy and flexible bronchoscopy

United Kingdom

• Management and decontamination of flexible endoscopes. Health Technical Memorandum 01-06 (Department of Health, updated 2016)