Polysorbate additive improves microbiological testing of endoscopes: an exploratory study

IF 3.1 3区医学 Q1 INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Journal of Hospital Infection Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI:10.1016/j.jhin.2025.07.004

H. Taboga, T. Kaighobadi, N. Babey

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Abstract

Disinfection of endoscopes is inherently difficult due to their flexible structure and inaccessibility for sterilization. We tested a new product based on Polysorbate 80, adding this to the standard reprocessing procedure after an initial non-compliant clean and compared compliance rates during quality assurance between endoscopes cleaned with the standard procedure compared to cleaning with the polysorbate product. Twenty-eight endoscopes received secondary cleaning with the standard procedure, and 29 with the addition of polysorbate. With the addition of polysorbate, compliance reached 100% (95% confidence interval: 88.3–100) compared to 82.1% (64.4–92.1) with standard procedure (P < 0.05). Cleaning technicians were surveyed, rating their satisfaction with the procedure at 9.7/10.

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聚山梨酯添加剂改善内窥镜微生物检测：一项探索性研究。

内窥镜由于其结构灵活且不易灭菌，其消毒本身就存在困难。我们测试了一种基于聚山梨酯80的新产品，在最初不符合要求的清洁后将其添加到标准的再处理程序中，并比较了在质量保证期间使用标准程序清洁的内窥镜与使用聚山梨酯产品清洁的内窥镜之间的合规率。28个内窥镜接受标准程序的二次清洗，29个加入聚山梨酸酯。添加聚山梨酸酯后，依从性达到100% [95%CI 88.3-100]，而82.1% [95%CI 64.4]；92.1]标准程序，P

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来源期刊

Journal of Hospital Infection 医学-传染病学

CiteScore

12.70

自引率

5.80%

发文量

271

审稿时长

19 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Hospital Infection is the editorially independent scientific publication of the Healthcare Infection Society. The aim of the Journal is to publish high quality research and information relating to infection prevention and control that is relevant to an international audience. The Journal welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of infection prevention and control in healthcare settings. This includes submissions that: provide new insight into the epidemiology, surveillance, or prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in healthcare settings; provide new insight into cleaning, disinfection and decontamination; provide new insight into the design of healthcare premises; describe novel aspects of outbreaks of infection; throw light on techniques for effective antimicrobial stewardship; describe novel techniques (laboratory-based or point of care) for the detection of infection or antimicrobial resistance in the healthcare setting, particularly if these can be used to facilitate infection prevention and control; improve understanding of the motivations of safe healthcare behaviour, or describe techniques for achieving behavioural and cultural change; improve understanding of the use of IT systems in infection surveillance and prevention and control.