Air Force Academy alerts patients to improperly processed endoscopes

Editor's Note

The Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs, Colorado) is notifying 267 patients from the school’s medical clinic and the Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System that they are at risk of infections from improperly processed gastrointestinal endoscopy equipment, according to the September 21 MilitaryTimes.

Air Force officials say the equipment was properly disinfected, but a step in the precleaning process was omitted. All 19 endoscopes were examined after the lapse was discovered and found to be free of any infectious material.

Improperly sterilized endoscopes were used on patients at medical clinic