GI Volume Continues to Grow – Keeping Up Can Be Difficult Quiz Summary & Objectives: 

Did you know that gastroenterologists perform approximately 15 million colonoscopies a year? Colonoscopies account for up to 24% of ASC volume each year.1
With the recommended age for colon screening going from 50 down to 45, there is a predicted colonoscopy volume increase that will impact GI reprocessing professionals.

This is just one factor increasing GI case volumes, resulting in reprocessing challenges that can impact quality and throughput. Nurses, technicians, scheduling teams, doctors and more will all feel the strain of this increasing case volume, and the negative impacts when reprocessing outcomes struggle to keep up.

• Describe the impact high procedure volumes have on endoscope reprocessing

• List the phases of reprocessing that can become bottlenecked due to increase volumes

• Identify metrics and resources that explain to impact high volumes have on endoscope reprocessing