Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Automated Endoscope Reprocessors
Bacterial
Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)
Carbapenems
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Custom Ultrasonics
Delayed Reprocessing
Disease Transmission
Disinfection
Endoscope Reprocessing
Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
Escherichia coli
Ethylene Oxide Gas Sterilization
Food and Drug Administration
GI Endoscopes
High-Level Disinfection
Infection Prevention
Instrument Reprocessing
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase]-producing K. pneumoniae
Outbreak Investigations
Pentax
Quality Assurance
Quality System Regulation
Risk Management
Root Causes Analysis
Transmission-Based Precautions
GI Endoscopy: Pushed Beyond its Reprocessing Limits?
This article is divided into two sections, for the reader’s convenience: “Part 1: ‘The Outbreak'” and “Part 2: ‘Commentary: An superbug outbreak waiting to happen?'” (‘Part 2’ can be read…