OCTOBER 12, 2022

AAMI Releases New Scope Processing Guidelines

GI Societies Decline Endorsement

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Lukejohn Day, MD, FASGE

In March 2022, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation issued its long-awaited update to its guidance on cleaning and storing flexible and semirigid endoscopes.

In a statement announcing the new guidance, AAMI noted that it “has been updated to reflect the consensus of industry, clinicians, and sterilization professionals from around the world.” But a response from seven leading gastroenterology societies, all of which participated in