title: Special section: minimally invasive surgery.
abstract: The minimally invasive surgical revolution has brought great benefits to patients and healthcare providers alike. Along with the successes have come some challenges, particularly for those who must clean and reprocess the reusable parts of scopes of all types. We have put together this special section to highlight some of the ways manufacturers of scopes, instruments, cleaning equipment and solutions have endeavored to make processing easier. This section is not all-inclusive, but it should give those facilities with continuing scope reprocessing problems a helping hand.
mesh_terms: D002379:Catalogs, Commercial as Topic; D003666:Decontamination / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017053:Infection Control; D020706:Laparoscopes