Colleagues,

As some of you may know, CMS now requires High Level Disinfection (HLD)for all Medicare deemed ASC.

Failure to meet this requirement is considered a condition level deficiency.

In the context of Vascular Centers, this means HLD of ultrasound probes.

Only practical solution we have come up with is to consider Trophon since use of glutaraldehyde is impractical in our setting.

However, Trophon's list of compatible ultrasound probes is limited and may not include for example MindRay which is what we use at our Center.

I wonder if any one else is faced with similar challenge and what they're doing about it. Thank you in advance for your feedback.

Naveen Atray

Sacramento, CA