Improved confidence in manual pre-cleaning

PROfILE single-use cleaning brushes

Manually pre-cleaning flexible endoscopes is key to ensuring reliable reprocessing as an end result.

Even with magnification, visual assessment of the manual pre-cleaning results is insufficient to detect microorganisms.

As such, PENTAX Medical provides a verified and validated solution to improve confidence in manual pre-cleaning, with the new PROfILE single-use cleaning brushes.

One product range that fits every PENTAX Medical endoscope

Proven cleaning efficiency

Designed and validated to meet PENTAX Medical's quality standards

Compliant with the industry's highest reprocessing standards

Proven reliability

Proven cleaning efficiency

In combination with PENTAX Medical endoscopes, the PROfILE single-use cleaning brushes were tested against residual soil and compared against the performance of legacy brushes. Through an authorized statistical test method, the internal validation proved both brushes to have a similar performance.

Designed and validated to meet PENTAX Medical's quality standards

PROfILE single-use cleaning brushes were made to meet the high-quality standards of PENTAX Medical engineering. Extensive internal tests have proven that they are the best possible fit to ensure proper hygiene results, with no impairment to the endoscope, across all types

Tailored for PENTAX Medical endoscopes' precise dimensions, structures, and materials
Improved bonding and pull-off capability at optimal insertion resistance of ≤10N
No damage to endoscope working channels and reliable even at increased thermal conditions

Compliant with the industry's highest reprocessing standards

How clean is clean enough? This was the leading question of PENTAX Medical engineers when deciding upon the validation criteria for hygienic efficacy of the PROfILE single-use cleaning brushes. In order to follow established standards, PENTAX Medical validated against the requirements of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)¹⁾.

	Hemoglobin [ <2.2 μ g/cm²]			Protein [ <6.4 μ g/cm²]			Carbohydrate [ <1.8 μ g/cm²]
Article	μg/article	μg/cm²	Result	μg/article	μg/cm²	Result	μg/article	μg/cm²	Result
Endoscope 1	14.88	1.06	PASS	31.05	2.20	PASS	10.82	0.77	PASS
Endoscope 2	9.92	0.70	PASS	22.68	1.61	PASS	8.05	0.57	PASS
Endoscope 3	19.84	1.41	PASS	59.40	4.21	PASS	6.82	0.48	PASS

Test example: Residual of three markers at scope’s distal end after third cleaning cycle, complying with AAMI requirements.

1) AAMI TIR30:2011 – Hemoglobin < 2.2µg/cm², Protein < 6.4µg/cm², Carbohydrate < 1.8µg/cm²

Overview of available brushes

	Brush			Compatible Endoscope
Item Code	Model	Length [mm]	Outer Diameter [ø mm]	Compatible Channel Width [ø mm]	Working Length [mm]	Gastro- enterol- ogy	Pulmo- nology	Urology	ENT & Speech	Intubation	EUS
Long Channel brushes
300600	CS2010A	1,020	2	1.1 - 1.5	Up to 720		•	•	•	•
300599	CS2022A	2,200	2	1.1 – 1.5	Up to 1,900						•
300601	CS2037A	3,720	2	1.1 - 1.5	Up to 3,420	•
300602	CS3022A	2,220	3	1.7 - 2.4	Up to 1,920	•
300603	CS4010A	1,020	4	1.8 - 3.2	Up to 720		•	•	•	•
300604	CS5503A	310	5,5	2.0 - 5.0	N/A		•	•	•	•
300605	CS5522A	2,420	5,5	2.0 - 5.0	Up to 2,120	•
300606	CS5530A	3,020	5,5	2.0 - 5.0	Up to 2,720	•
Short inlet seal brushes
300607	CS-C11A	N/A	6 - 14	N/A	N/A		•	•	•	•
300598	CS-C12A	N/A	5	N/A	N/A						•
300608	CS-C13A	N/A	6 - 15	N/A	N/A	•

Find the right brush

PROfILE single-use cleaning brushes are designed to fit your PENTAX Medical endoscope.
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Manual cleaning is still the most important step in reprocessing. However, in daily practice this stage is often downgraded to just a simple flush and brush. I call upon the field, to shift from reprocessing quantity to quality.