
Gastrointestinal societies voted not to support the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation’s 2021 revisions to the standards of endoscope processing in health care facilities, according to a published joint statement.
The revisions to ST91 made by the AAMI and the American National Standards Institute include updated guidelines for cleaning, packaging, storing, disinfecting and sterilizing flexible and semi-rigid GI endoscopes.
“Our societies appreciated the opportunity to provide our perspectives as clinicians and end-users to the revision of ST91,” ASGE