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    A.  Infection Prevention Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities with Limited Resources (JHPIEGO), March 2003.

    B.  The controversy over endoscope drying, liquid sterilants:
    1. FDA Labeling of Liquid Chemical Sterilants: Are Modifications Needed?
    2. Dear AORN, Part 1
    3. Dear AORN, Part II
    4. Part 1: Lessons from the bronchoscope case (Allegheny General)
    5. Part 2: Rebuttal to this bronchoscope controversy about drying
    6. Part 3: To dry or not to dry the endoscope?
    7. Establishing the Shelf Life of Flexible Colonoscopes

    C.  Newspaper articles

    1. Candor praised in scope problems. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (04-01-05).
    2. Clinic Infections Put a Sterilizer Of Lab Devices Under Microscope. The Wall Street Journal  (12-24-04).
    3. Machines blamed in AGH death. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (01-22-03).
    4. A new risk for high-tech surgery? Investor’s Business Daily (02-14-00).

    <Click here> for more newspaper articles about infection control and endoscopy.

    A.  Endoscope reprocessing:

    1. Glutaraldehyde, the myth of the "14days" vs. the "30 or 28days solutions.
    2. Can endoscopes be reprocessed during a "boil water alert?"

    B.  Automated endoscope reprocessing:

    1. A checklist for purchase of automated endoscope reprocessors (AERS) or "systems." Acta Endoscopica 2000;30 - Supplément 2(3). 349-57.
    2. Olympus checklist for reprocessing GI endoscopes (manual, automated).
    3. FDA, CDC Public Health Advisory (1999)
    4. CDC. Bronchoscopy-Related Infections and Pseudoinfections. MMWR July 09, 1999;48(26);557.

    C.  Central supply processing:

    1. Traffic flow in a central supply department.
    2. OSAP Position Paper: Instrument Processing: January, 1997.
    3. The Basics of Processing and Sterilization (Sterile and Materials Processing)
    4. A day in the life of an instruments in the sterile processing cycle.

    D.  Conflict of Interest Policies, Articles:

    1. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors

    E.  Other topics:

    1. HICPAC's Draft guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities.
    2. CJD: WHO infection control guidelines for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
    3. Is it safe to use alcohol-based products in the OR? (Rednova; question #2)
    4. Helicobacter pylori: That little bug which changed the course of modern medicine
    5. Resale value of colonoscopes fuels thefts.  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 10-01-05
    8. Abdominal tuberculosis
    9. Observing Standard Precautions in the Operating Room 
    10. Standard Precautions, Transmission-based Precautions
    11. A checklist for purchasing a washer-disinfector for flexible endoscopes
    12. Polyester instead of silk suture loops for AOAC sporidical test?
    13. Spaulding's classification, examples
    14. An example of a state's rules and regulations for hospitals 
    15. Device classifications, examples; Levels of disinfection
    16. More on device classifications, examples; Levels of disinfection
    17. Methods of disinfection
    18. Controversial NY sterilization bill
    19. What is ERCP?
    20. Mycobacterial disease associated with contaminated medical equipment  

    Richard J. Wallace, Jr., ­Barbara A. Brown, and ­David E. Griffith. Noscomial outbreaks/pseudo outbreaks caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria. Annual Review of Microbiology  Vol. 52: 453-490 (Volume publication date October 1998).

    Daniel A. Culver, Steven M. Gordon and Atul C. Mehta. Infection Control in the Bronchoscopy Suite. A Review of Outbreaks and Guidelines for Prevention. Am J Respir Critical Care Med 2003;167:1050-1056. 
    Alan H. Ramsey, MD; Tanya V. Oemig, RM (NRM); et al. An Outbreak of Bronchoscopy-Related Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections Due to Lack of Bronchoscope Leak Testing. Chest 2002;121:976-981.
    Spach DH, Silverstein FE, Stamm WE.  Transmission of infection by gastrointestinal endoscopy and bronchoscopy. Ann Intern Med 1993 Jan 15;118(2):117-28.
    Rutala WA, Weber DJ. New disinfection and sterilization methods. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2001 Mar-Apr;7(2).
    Michelle J. Alfa, PhD, Michele Jackson, BS. A new hydrogen peroxide–based medical-device detergent with germicidal properties: Comparison with enzymatic cleaners. Am J Infect Control 2001;29:168-77.
    Henri G. Colt, MD, FCCP; et al. Novel Flexible Bronchoscope and Single-Use Disposable-Sheath Endoscope System.* A Preliminary Technology Evaluation. Chest. 2000;118:183-187.© 2000 American College of Chest Physicians.
    FDA and CDC PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY: Infections from Endoscopes Inadequately Reprocessed by an Automated Endoscope Reprocessing System (1999).
    CDC. Bronchoscopy-Related Infections and Pseudoinfections -- New York,  1996 and 1998. MMWR July 09, 1999;48(26);557. 
    Gerald McDonnell1,* and A. Denver Russell. Antiseptics and Disinfectants: Activity, Action, and Resistance. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, January 1999, 12(1):147-179.  
    1. Ciancio A, et al. Digestive endoscopy is not a major risk factor for transmitting hepatitis C virus. Ann Intern Med 2005 Jun 7;142(11):903-9.
    2. Wenzel RP, Edmond MB.  Patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis C virus.
      Ann Intern Med 2005 Jun 7;142(11):940-1.
    3. Tawk HM, et al. Infection in Endoscopy Study Group. The significance of transfusion in the past as a risk for current hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection: a study in endoscopy patients. Transfusion 2005 May;45(5):807-13.
    4. Chanzy B, et al. Effectiveness of a manual disinfection procedure in eliminating hepatitis C virus from experimentally contaminated endoscopes.
      Gastrointest Endosc 1999 Aug;50(2):147-51.
    5. Bronowicki JP, et al. Patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis C virus during colonoscopy. N Engl J Med 1997 Jul 24;337(4):237-40.
    6. Viral hepatitis
    7. The etiology of the hepatitis C virus
    1. Is the Chinese horseshoe bat the reservoir of the SARS virus in nature?
    2. General Information:  Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) [CDC]
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