As endoscopic instruments contain many different diameters and lengths of lumen, they need to be cleaned using different sizes of brushes. There are irregularities and randomness when using brushes to clean the lumen instruments. This results in incomplete cleaning, damage to the outer sheath of the lumen and shortened brush life. Regulating the use of brushes can therefore improve the quality of cleaning, extend the life of endoscopic instruments and protect the performance of the brushes.
Manual cleaning requires a preliminary cleaning with tube brushes of different sizes for different diameters of the tube lumen. There is a wide range of brushes available on the market. It is important to choose a suitably matched medical endoscope cleaning brush.
Medical Instrument Cleaning Brush
In practice, there is a mismatch between the tube lumen and the brush either large or small, making it difficult to fit inside the tube lumen or too much resistance to cleaning, even when using multiple brushes. Also. Damaged brushes. Manual brute force handling during brushing can cause the bristles to bend and distort. When the brushes are used again, they will not enter the canal cavity smoothly and brush into blind areas, thus increasing the cost of hospitalisation.
Also, the various brushes are often mixed up when hanging and holding. It takes time to find the right brush, especially for new staff. Even though they have the perfect size brush, they still can't find a match. Colour recognition allows the placement of the brushes to be adjusted after use, making it easier for new staff to find and use the matching brushes to clean the lumen instruments in the first place. Some modifications and recommendations were made.
Corner Clean Brush
Prepare different sizes of tube cleaning brushes for measuring the lumen diameter of endoscopic instruments. Equip the brushes perfectly for the different diameters and sizes of the tube lumen to avoid mismatching and choose brushes that are 1 mm larger than the inner diameter of the tube lumen. Tube brushes ensure that the brush is thoroughly clean even when entering the lumen and dumping hair.
Conference use is formulated for casual or brute force handling by personnel. Hold the tube lumen gauge in the left hand and the brush in the right; hold the brush in the right hand at a distance of ≤ 1 cm from the entrance to the tube lumen; the length of each brush entrance is ≤ 1 cm to avoid distances and pressure that could bend and distort the brush, affecting the reuse of the brush or damaging the lumen of the equipment fed into it; clean from the clean end to the contaminated end, one brush needs to see both ends before the next to ensure adequate brushing.
Tie different coloured markings on the ends of the various sizes of tube brushes to indicate the number of tube brushes and hang them on self-adhesive hooks. Above the hooks, the number of pipe brushes of the same colour corresponds to the number of pipe brushes of the same colour. Cleaning which lumens can be used with the pipe brushes is clear at a glance, ensuring that the brushes can be grouped into the same colour and making it easy to find a match in the shortest possible time.
Contact us today to learn more about MUNKCARE medical instrument cleaning brush.
