Decontamination
- What is JAG's guidance on completing the IHEEM and IPS audits?
- Should we be using disposable or reusable valves?
- The decontamination of endoscopes for my service is undertaken off-site. Do I still need to provide an IHEEM report?
- My decontamination facility has just opened - do we need to provide an IHEEM report?
- Should our decontamination lead be accountable to the theatre manager or an executive board member?
- Can my unit be accredited if an external person supports our decontamination team?
- Can Infacol be used through the biopsy channel in an Endogator pump?
- Does JAG have any guidance on centralised decontamination?
- If decontamination equipment becomes out of service for a number of days, do the centres where endoscopes are sent for reprocessing need to be JAG accredited?
- Our plan is to move to a pass through washer and the vacuum pack system, is this sufficient or do we still need a drying cabinet?
- Should the 3 hour rule be taken from the disinfection time of the scope or from the time the scope is removed from the AER?
- Can Tristel wipes be used to clean nasoendoscopes?
- We have hard containers for moving the scopes, must they be locked whilst they are being moved?
- Does JAG accredit services that provide outsourced decontamination of endoscopes?
- What are JAG's decontamination standards?
- Who completes mandatory template 5 - IHEEM AED audit checklist?