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Reprocessing
NOTICE
Risk of damage to the product
If endoscopes touch each other during reprocessing, transport or
storage, damage to the endoscope may occur.
• Avoid that the endoscopes touch each other or other devices
during reprocessing, transport or storage.
7.2 General information for reprocessing
Brand-new instruments
Treat brand-new instruments as if they have been used.
Brand-new instruments must be reprocessed using a complete
reprocessing cycle.
The reprocessing cycle
• Reprocess the product according to the instructions in this
chapter.
• To minimize the risk of infecting patients, users or third parties,
reprocess the endoscopic instrumentation before each use.
• Contact your local hygiene representative for local standards
and regulations.
Manual cleaning or automatic cleaning
In general, this product can be cleaned manually or automatically
with sufficient results. Manual cleaning methods involve infection
risks for the personnel responsible for reprocessing. Automatic
methods reduce these risks and provide the advantage of
standardized, reproducible and validated procedures. Therefore,
Olympus recommends to generally prefer automatic cleaning
methods.
Validated for efficacy
Validated for efficacy means that the efficacy of the method
or agent has been validated for reprocessing this product as
described in this document.