Preventing infections from flexible endoscopes

Kathy Shostek, Vice President, Healthcare Risk Management for Sedgwick HCRM & Patient Safety. Today we talk to Charlotte L. Guglielmi MA,BSN,RN,CNOR, Clinical Manager, Perioperative Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Char is past president of the Association for perioperative Registered Nurses (or AORN) and, among other things, was the column coordinator for  the bi-annual “Table Talk” column commentary in the AORN Journal through the end of 2016. She is the author of the article on preventing infections from flexible endoscopes in the Spring 2017 issue of Endurance Insurance’s Insight and Perspective newsletter.