Disinfecting dropped instruments, Cleaning verifi cation - essential for cannulated medical devices

Channeled and can-nulated medical devices are amongst the most challenging to clean; residual soils remaining in the lumen of these devices can inhibit the sterilization process and indeed result in the transmission of infectious agents from one patient to another. With the widely publicized reports in the media of breaches in cleaning procedures, which have placed thousands of patients at risk, coupled with professional standards and recommendations, cleaning verifi cation has become the standard of practice. There are swab and some fl ush type tests that can detect either adenosine triphosphate (ATP), protein, or blood. Since you spe-cifi cally expressed your concern with cannulated and channeled devices, many with very small lumens, I would recommend a fl ush method test known as ChannelCheckTM.