Health Economics Outcomes Research and Market Access, Ambu USA, Columbia, MD, USA
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Conflicts of Interest
Ambu USA is a medical device company which produces single-use devices for hospitals. The authors have no potential conflicts of interest.
Funding
None.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: all authors; Data curation: DH; Formal analysis: DH; Investigation: DH; Methodology: all authors; Project administration: all authors; Resources: CC; Supervision: CC; Validation: CC; Writing–original draft: DH; Writing–review & editing: CC.
ANSI/AAMI ST91:2015 | ANSI/AAMI ST91: 2021 |
Added cost (USD)11,12 |
Added time12 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Purchase | Labor | |||
Environmental and personal protective equipment | ||||
Not included | Take the necessary steps towards sterilization where possible | |||
Verify environmental cleaning with methods such as UV light markers, protein tests, and ATP bioluminescence | 10.08 per ATP test | 1.80 | 5.4 min | |
Transport | ||||
Not included | Keep endoscope and accessories moist with moisture-retaining detergent, a moistened towel, or moisture-retaining package | 0.98 | - | |
Leak testing | ||||
Not included | Calibration schedule for leak testers | - | ||
Wet leak test: minimum 30 sec | Wet leak test: minimum 60 sec | 0.17 | 30 sec | |
Cleaning | ||||
Not included | Endoscope manual cleaning initiated within 1 h of procedure | - | - | |
Cross-contamination and infection control | ||||
To minimize risk, one of the following measures should be utilized: | - | - | ||
Consider using single-use valves | 1. Use of single-use biopsy port caps and single-use valves | 15.22 | - | |
Not included | 2. Sterilization of reusable valves and caps | 0.00 | - | |
HLD of valves | 3. HLD of valves and caps | 1.10 | - | |
Not included | Clean and disinfect sinks between uses | 0.38 | - | |
Inspection | ||||
Not included | Cleaning verification after each cleaning and before disinfection or sterilization | 32.31 | 2.86 | 8.4 min |
Not included | Visual inspection to verify cleanliness, integrity, and function before use, during the procedure, after the procedure, after cleaning, and before disinfection | 3.34 | ||
Drying | ||||
Not included | 10 min minimum of drying with pressure-regulated forced air | - | 10 min | |
Continuation of drying if moisture still exists after the 10-min period | ||||
Storage | ||||
Not included | Packaged endoscopes should have tamper-evident seals that clearly distinguish used endoscopes from “patient-ready” endoscopes | 0.43 | - | |
Total | $52.35–$67.57 | 24.3 min |
Capital purchases | Value |
---|---|
Monitor water supply quality | 10 |
Three decontamination sinks: one for leak testing, one for manual cleaning, and one for rinsing | 3,000–15,000 |
Inspection using a borescope to visually examine the working channel for damage | 3,948.512 |
Two types of storage cabinets are being recommended: | 12,06812 |
1. Drying cabinets that circulate HEPA-filtered or instrument air through the cabinet and each endoscope channel at continuous positive pressure | |
2. Conventional cabinets that circulate HEPA-filtered or instrument air through the cabinet, but do not through endoscope channels. |
Reprocessing step | sHLD9 | EtO sterilization9 |
---|---|---|
Staff labor | 30.88 | 41.08 |
Materials | 49.59 | 51.28 |
EtO gas sterilization | - | 204.13 |
Total reprocessing cost | 80.47 | 296.49 |
Procedure volume | Recommendation costs | Capital costs | Total |
---|---|---|---|
100 | 59.96 | 340.17 | 400.13 |
500 | 59.96 | 68.03 | 127.99 |
1,000 | 59.96 | 34.02 | 93.98 |
2,000 | 59.96 | 17.01 | 76.97 |
ANSI/AAMI ST91:2015 | ANSI/AAMI ST91: 2021 | Added cost (USD)11,12 |
Added time12 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Purchase | Labor | |||
Environmental and personal protective equipment | ||||
Not included | Take the necessary steps towards sterilization where possible | |||
Verify environmental cleaning with methods such as UV light markers, protein tests, and ATP bioluminescence | 10.08 per ATP test | 1.80 | 5.4 min | |
Transport | ||||
Not included | Keep endoscope and accessories moist with moisture-retaining detergent, a moistened towel, or moisture-retaining package | 0.98 | - | |
Leak testing | ||||
Not included | Calibration schedule for leak testers | - | ||
Wet leak test: minimum 30 sec | Wet leak test: minimum 60 sec | 0.17 | 30 sec | |
Cleaning | ||||
Not included | Endoscope manual cleaning initiated within 1 h of procedure | - | - | |
Cross-contamination and infection control | ||||
To minimize risk, one of the following measures should be utilized: | - | - | ||
Consider using single-use valves | 1. Use of single-use biopsy port caps and single-use valves | 15.22 | - | |
Not included | 2. Sterilization of reusable valves and caps | 0.00 | - | |
HLD of valves | 3. HLD of valves and caps | 1.10 | - | |
Not included | Clean and disinfect sinks between uses | 0.38 | - | |
Inspection | ||||
Not included | Cleaning verification after each cleaning and before disinfection or sterilization | 32.31 | 2.86 | 8.4 min |
Not included | Visual inspection to verify cleanliness, integrity, and function before use, during the procedure, after the procedure, after cleaning, and before disinfection | 3.34 | ||
Drying | ||||
Not included | 10 min minimum of drying with pressure-regulated forced air | - | 10 min | |
Continuation of drying if moisture still exists after the 10-min period | ||||
Storage | ||||
Not included | Packaged endoscopes should have tamper-evident seals that clearly distinguish used endoscopes from “patient-ready” endoscopes | 0.43 | - | |
Total | $52.35–$67.57 | 24.3 min |
Capital purchases | Value |
---|---|
Monitor water supply quality | 10 |
Three decontamination sinks: one for leak testing, one for manual cleaning, and one for rinsing | 3,000–15,000 |
Inspection using a borescope to visually examine the working channel for damage | 3,948.512 |
Two types of storage cabinets are being recommended: | 12,06812 |
1. Drying cabinets that circulate HEPA-filtered or instrument air through the cabinet and each endoscope channel at continuous positive pressure | |
2. Conventional cabinets that circulate HEPA-filtered or instrument air through the cabinet, but do not through endoscope channels. |
Reprocessing step | sHLD9 | EtO sterilization9 |
---|---|---|
Staff labor | 30.88 | 41.08 |
Materials | 49.59 | 51.28 |
EtO gas sterilization | - | 204.13 |
Total reprocessing cost | 80.47 | 296.49 |
Item | Cost (USD) | Quantity | Procedures (USD) |
|||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 | 500 | 1,000 | 2,000 | |||
Decontamination sink (low estimate) | 3,000 | 1 | 30.00 | 6.00 | 3.00 | 2 |
Decontamination sink (high estimate) | 15,000 | 1 | 150.00 | 30.00 | 15.00 | 8 |
Borescope | 3,949 | 1 | 39.49 | 7.90 | 3.95 | 2 |
Drying cabinet | 12,068 | 1 | 120.68 | 24.14 | 12.07 | 6 |
Procedure volume | Recommendation costs | Capital costs | Total |
---|---|---|---|
100 | 59.96 | 340.17 | 400.13 |
500 | 59.96 | 68.03 | 127.99 |
1,000 | 59.96 | 34.02 | 93.98 |
2,000 | 59.96 | 17.01 | 76.97 |
ANSI, American National Standards Institute; AAMI, Advancement of Medical Instrumentation; USD, United States dollar; UV, ultraviolet; ATP, adenosine triphosphate; HLD, high-level disinfection; -, no data.
HEPA, high-efficiency particulate air.
sHLD, single high-level disinfection; EtO, ethylene oxide; -, no data.
USD, United States dollar.