Healthmark Industries, which develops products for the sterilization, decontamination, storage and security of surgical instruments and other medical devices and accessories, has announced the effectiveness of its ChannelCheck 3-1 Residual Soil Test Strips was recently verified through a study conducted by Olympus America.
The results of the study, presented at the 2011 Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates Convention, showed ChannelCheck was suitable for evaluating the cleanliness of flexible endoscopes, according to a news release. The purpose of ChannelCheck is to test for three organic soils commonly found in patient-used endoscopes: blood, protein and carbohydrates.
A total of 79 Olympus endoscopes were sampled using the specified collection procedure during the study, according to the release and a copy of the study. According to the ChannelCheck results, after bedside cleaning but prior to reprocessing 17 endoscopes tested positive for residual protein, 8 endoscopes tested positive for residual carbohydrate and 36 tested positive for hemoglobin. Each of these endoscopes was then manually cleaned and retested using the ChannelCheck test strips. No endoscopes tested positive for protein, carbohydrate or hemoglobin after manual cleaning had been completed.
View the Olympus study on ChannelCheck (pdf).
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