Have you ever heard of NOTES or TAMIS?
NOTES stands for natural orifice tansluminal endoscopic surgery and TAMIS stands for transanal minimally invasive surgery. Surgeon’s used to use flexible scopes to diagnose conditions and perform simple procedures like removing a foreign object, (a fish bone for example). Advances in technology and design of scopes have created a whole new approach to MIS (minimally invasive surgery).
We in CSSD need to be able to clean and sterilize the medical devices used to perform these types of surgery. Read more