Endoscope Reprocessing and Tracking
The highest-risk reprocessing task in the hospital, taught step by step.
Program overview
Flexible endoscopes are difficult to clean, impossible to steam sterilise, and implicated in transmission incidents worldwide. Their reprocessing is correspondingly prescriptive and correspondingly often deviated from. This course covers the full cycle: bedside pre-cleaning, leak testing, manual cleaning including channel brushing, high-level disinfection and automated reprocessor operation, drying and storage, traceability linking scope to patient, and the response to a reprocessing failure or suspected transmission.
Why this program
Step-by-step through the highest-risk reprocessing task
Emphasises the steps most often skipped
Includes traceability scope-to-patient
Covers failure and suspected transmission response
Who it is for
Program objectives
- Perform bedside pre-cleaning correctly and explain why it is decisive
- Conduct leak testing and interpret the result
- Execute manual cleaning including channel brushing to standard
- Operate high-level disinfection and automated reprocessing safely
- Apply correct drying and storage practice
- Maintain traceability linking each scope to each patient
Learning outcomes
- Sequence the reprocessing steps for a described endoscope
- Identify the consequence of an omitted pre-clean or delayed reprocessing
- Interpret a leak test result and select the correct action
- Evaluate a described storage arrangement for adequacy
- Apply traceability requirements to a described procedure list
- Plan the response to a suspected reprocessing failure
Curriculum
Module 1: Why Endoscopes Are Different
1 lessonsWhy Endoscopes Are DifferentPreview
Channels, biofilm, heat sensitivity and transmission history.
Module 2: Bedside Pre-Clean and Transport
1 lessons- Bedside Pre-Clean and Transport
Module 3: Leak Testing and Manual Cleaning
1 lessons- Leak Testing and Manual Cleaning
Module 4: High-Level Disinfection
1 lessons- High-Level Disinfection
Module 5: Drying, Storage and Traceability
1 lessons- Drying, Storage and Traceability
Duration and structure
5 lessons across 5 modules. Duration is expressed in study hours.
What you receive
This certificate confirms completion of Endoscope Reprocessing and Tracking. Duration is expressed in study hours.
Delivery format
- Self-paced — start any time.
- Study on any device.
- Lifetime access to the version you enrolled in.