12 Tips for the Maintenance and Care of Laparoscope

A laparoscope is an endoscope used for intra-abdominal examination and treatment. It is essentially a fiber-light #endoscope comprising a #laparoscope, an energy system, a light source system, a perfusion system, and an imaging system.

It is applied to surgical patients in a completely painless manner, allowing a direct and clear view of the patient's intra-abdominal cavity to understand the causative factors, while surgical treatment is done for abnormalities.

Today's talk is about the twelve tips for laparoscopic maintenance and care:

1.?Instruments should be taken lightly and placed lightly, no friction, mutual collision, and simultaneous holding of diverse instruments in one hand, keeping the axial joints flexible tips together well, sharp instruments edges and sharp.

2.?Pay attention to the protection of the mirror surface.

3.?After cleaning the wire storage, do not disassemble the overlap, coil bending should be greater than 90 degrees, in order to prevent the fiber optic fracture, affecting the use of the effect and shortening the service life.

4.?All types of pliers should be checked frequently, move the joints, pay attention to the closure of the plier end and apply special lubricant to the joints.

5.?Sharp instruments should be kept in a rubber protective sleeve.

6.?Poke card, converter, and rotary cutter on the seal such as aging, crack is should be replaced in a timely manner, so as not to cause intraoperative air leakage and affect the pneumoperitoneum effect.

7.?The valve on the flush should be regularly disassembled for cleaning, and oiling, to maintain the flexibility of valve.

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8.?For All instruments in the use, cleaning, and maintenance process, the joint should not be a strong wrench, the tip can not touch hard objects, and small parts of the instrument can not be lost.

9.?The light source and camera should be unplugged only after making sure that the host power is turned off before separation.

10.?The lumpectomy system should not be restarted within 15 minutes after switching off.

11.?Sterilization of endoscopes gives priority to low temperature or plasma sterilization method, if using an autoclaving method, must let the mirror cool naturally, forbidden to use cold water cooling, otherwise it will lead to the rupture of the lens, at present, do not advocate the use of glutaraldehyde immersion sterilization, because the liquid at the interface of the mirror after immersion is not easy to wipe clean, the use of the process will produce foggy steam affect the clarity of the mirror, try not to change the sterilization of the mirror often Try not to change the sterilization method of the mirror too often, this is good for the sealing of the mirror.

12.?The mirror and surgical instruments should be cleaned separately, the mirror surface with a wet degreasing cotton ball along a direction after wiping clean, wipe dry with mirror paper, the mirror body can be wiped clean with a wet soft cloth, prohibit the use of ultrasonic cleaning mirror, try not to use saline cleaning mirror, otherwise it is easy to produce rust stains.

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