Prevention of Contamination Accompanied by Endoscopy

Autor:	Tadashi Hinohara, Kenji Koshii
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Hepatitis B virus medicine.medical_specialty Medical staff Endoscope medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Contamination medicine.disease_cause Surgery Endoscopy Social interest Medicine business Intensive care medicine
Zdroj:	Nihon Kikan Shokudoka Gakkai Kaiho. 43:383-388
ISSN:	1880-6848 0029-0645
DOI:	10.2468/jbes.43.383
Popis:	In recent years endoscopy has been widely used for the diagnosis and treatment of numerous aerodigestive diseases. Because patients may be examined successively using the same endoscope, there is a possibility of transmitting microorganisms to the next patient in such endoscopic examinations. Hospitals, therefore, must address the issue of preventing contamination accompanied by endoscopy. Presently in Japan, hospital-acquired infections are increasing. This has become with a growing social interest. For an endoscopist, the most effective means of decreasing such infections is to prevent contamination accompanied by endoscopic examinations. It is necessary to have a contamination-prevention committee, to have a contamination-prevention surveillance system and to educate the medical staff about successful contamination prevention. In this paper we present general matters to be attended when dealing with hospital-acquired infection and contamination. We outline the prevention of specific infectious diseases caused by MRSA (methicillin resistant S. aureus), HBV (hepatitis B virus) and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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