ELGIN, Ill., April 21, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- SGNA
Standards of Infection Control in Reprocessing of Flexible
Gastrointestinal Endoscopes states: "Drying the endoscope after
every reprocessing cycle, both between patient procedures and
before storage, is a requisite practice crucial to the prevention
of bacterial transmission and nosocomial infections. Drying is as
important to the prevention of disease transmission and nosocomial
infection as cleaning and HLD."
The Dri-Scope Aid® family of products have been on the forefront
of finding a solution for every facility to dry their scopes
properly after high-level disinfection.
"There have been multiple studies done in the past year
highlighting the risk of bacterial growth that can happen if an
endoscope isn't properly dried after it comes out of an AER. The
assumption that alcohol and hanging is enough, has been proven not
to work," said George Cronin,
National Sales Manager. "In the recently published study by Barakat
MT, Huang RJ, Banerjee S., 'Comparison of Automated and Manual
Drying in the Eliminating Residual Endoscope Working Channel Fluid
After Reprocessing,' in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (January 2019), Volume 89, Issue 1, Dr. Barakat
changed the conversation from 'should we be drying?' to 'how are we
going to dry?' They showed that constant automated flow of air,
outperformed 10 minutes of high psi manual air. It is the focus of
the new Dri-Scope Aid®Jet~Stream to always have automated
constant/consistent flow of HEPA filtered air with repeatable
results."
TRICOR Systems Inc. is excited to announce the new Dri-Scope
Aid®Jet~Stream standalone system with dual timer, .1 micron
HEPA-filter, and greatest amount of airflow on the market. The dual
timer allows the operator to hook up two endoscopes (all major
brands) with independent start and stop times. The individual
timers will help with the flow and turnaround time in the
reprocessing room.
The Dri-Scope Aid®Jet~Stream unit features a daily disposable
tubing assembly, and individual scope connectors, to alleviate
cross contamination concerns. The scopes are simply attached to the
daily tubing assembly via the connectors, the required time is set,
and the start button pressed to initiate a continuous flow of
HEPA-filtered air through the scope(s), freeing the technician for
other duties. Timing can be set between 1 and 99 minutes using the
unit's digital display and touch pad controls. The Dri-Scope
Aid®Jet~Stream unit is compact (10.2 inches tall by 6.8 inches wide
and 9.5 inches deep), and weighs only 8 pounds. It is designed for
countertop, wall mount or pole mount use.
For more information on Dri-Scope Aid®Jet~Stream, call
508-423-3223, e-mail sales(at)driscope(dot)com or visit
http://www.driscope.com.
TRICOR is a small, progressive business actively involved for
over 40 years in the design, development, and manufacture of
military, aerospace and medical electronic equipment/
instrumentation, as well as various other products including
software. TRICOR's ability for a quick turn-around from product
inception to delivery is what sets us apart from our competitors.
TRICOR customers include many Fortune 500 companies within the
aerospace, defense and medical industries.
TRICOR's current quality registrations include: ISO13485:2016,
ISO9001:2015, and AS9100D.
For more information on TRICOR Systems Inc. and its
capabilities, visit http://www.tricor-systems.com.
SOURCE TRICOR Systems Inc.