22/10/2025
📣Breaking News!
A very first UltraZonic ENDO device installed in Canada!🇨🇦
We would like to thank to go for 100% patient safety in their endoscopy department! Also gratitude to Garry Bassi, Laurie Thomas, Marina Chung
Here’s an article documenting a key national reference for cleaning endoscopes in Canada:
A new standard will accepted as soon the health government found the added value with UltraZonic ENDO for the Canadian hospitals!
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Canada Releases National Guideline for Endoscope Reprocessing
Date: October 2025
OTTAWA — The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has published a landmark document titled Infection Prevention and Control Guideline for Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Flexible Bronchoscopy, which sets forth national recommendations for the cleaning, disinfection and sterilization (collectively “reprocessing”) of flexible endoscopes used in Canadian healthcare facilities.
Background & Need
Reprocessing of endoscopes is critical because these instruments can harbour blood, tissue or secretions that — if not properly removed — pose infection risks. The guideline notes that “manual cleaning of endoscopes and accessories is critical to the success of subsequent disinfection or sterilization”.
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✅ Professional Quotes on Endoscope Cleaning:
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“The most critical step in endoscope reprocessing is the first one: manual cleaning. If debris is not removed, no high-level disinfectant can do its job.”
— Infection Prevention and Control Guideline, PHAC
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“Clean is not a matter of appearance — it’s a matter of patient safety.”
— Common saying in reprocessing and sterilization teams
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“An improperly cleaned endoscope is a silent threat — invisible, but deadly.”
— Dr. William Rutala, expert in disinfection and infection control
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“Sterilization is only as effective as the cleaning that precedes it.”
— Canadian Standards Association (CSA Z314)
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“When it comes to infection prevention in endoscopy, shortcuts cost lives.”
— Anonymous infection control nurse
