Survey of current status of cleaning and disinfection of digestive endoscopes in 185 medical institutions of Hubei Province
10.11816/cn.ni.2025-248601
- VernacularTitle:湖北省185所医疗机构消化内镜清洗消毒现状调查
- Author:
Weijun PENG
1
;
Qiaozhen GUO
;
Yao CHEN
;
Cong SHI
;
Li TAN
Author Information
1. 华中科技大学同济医学院附属同济医院医院感染管理科,湖北武汉 430030
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Medical institution;
Digestive endoscope;
Cleaning and disinfection;
Current status survey;
Questionaire survey
- From:
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology
2025;35(6):950-955
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To investigate the current status of cleaning and disinfection of digestive endoscopes in vari-ous grades of hospitals of Hubei Province so as to improve the quality of cleaning and disinfection of the digestive endoscopes.METHODS A survey was conducted by the hospital infection management department of Tongji Hos-pital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology from Mar.25,2024 to Mar.29,2024.A questionnaire was formulated by brainstorming and literature review.The electronic question-naire was distributed through the"Wenjuanxing"platform.The questionnaire survey aimed to investigate the per-sonnel,training,equipment and facilities,cleaning and disinfection operations,monitoring and recording of the digestive endoscopy centers of the medical institutions in the province.RESULTS Totally 185 medical institutions were finally included,113 of which were tertiary hospitals,and 72 were secondary and lower-grade hospitals.The tertiary hospitals were superior to the secondary and lower-grade hospitals in the quantity of endoscopes,daily di-agnosis and treatment volume of patients,participation in external training(including continuous training,further education,hospital-level training),provision of some facilities and equipment(ultrasonic cleaners,full pipeline perfusion devices,cleaning brushes,high-pressure water guns,transport containers),some cleaning and disinfec-tion operations(changing the cleaning enzyme solution one time for one endoscope,disinfecting the cleaning brush one time after one-time use),implementation of surveillance of cleaning quality and preservation of surveil-lance records(P＜0.05).However,the tertiary hospital were inferior to the secondary and lower-grade hospitals in standardized use of transferring containers(65.49％)and drying time of air guns(57.52％)(P＜0.05).CONCLUSIONS The quality of cleaning and disinfection of the digestive endoscopes remains large room to be im-proved in the medical institutions of Hubei Province.It is necessary for the medical institutions to strengthen the supervision and training of personnel based on the their actual condition,complete the provision of facilities and e-quipment,standardize the cleaning and disinfection operations,and complete the surveillance and recordings.
