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## Posts about standards (2):

[Surgical Instruments](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/surgical-instruments) [standards](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/standards) [AS/NZS4187](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/as-nzs4187)

![Flexible Endoscope](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/flexible_endoscope.jpg)

Previously I wrote about the new version  of AS/NZS 4187 ([what it means for day surgeries](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/attention-day-surgery-clinics-is-your-surgery-as/nzs4187-compliant) and a [reference table to AS4187 terminology for CDS Managers](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/cds-managers-heres-a-quick-reference-table-to-as/nzs4187-terminology)) which was released on the 15th December last year. It has brought some very significant changes to the previous standard. In this blog post I discuss the standard's application to the reprocessing of flexible endoscopes.

![CSSD Managers: Here's a quick reference table to AS/NZS4187 Terminology](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/ScanCARE/cssd_manager.jpg)

[standards](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/standards) [AS/NZS4187](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/as-nzs4187)

The new version of AS/NZS4187 released on the 15th December last year, contains a number of differences in terminology to the previous version. The new standard also uses abbreviations.

This blog contains a list of the abbreviations and their meanings and looks at some of the important differences in terminology.

![How to make sense of the AS4187 categorisation of product families](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/CSD_Manager.jpeg)

[Surgical Instruments](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/surgical-instruments) [standards](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/standards) [AS/NZS4187](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/as-nzs4187) [Product Families](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/product-families)

The new version of AS4187 (AS/NZS 4187) released on the 15th December last year brought some very significant changes to the previous standard. One of the most significant changes is the standards reference to Product Families.

![Attention Day Surgery Clinics: is your surgery AS/NZS4187 compliant?](https://blog.scancare.com.au/hubfs/is_your_day_surgery_as_nsz4197_compliant.png)

[standards](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/standards) [AS/NZS4187](https://blog.scancare.com.au/blog/topic/as-nzs4187)

On the 15th December last year, a new version of AS/NZS 4187 was released. The standard is complex and there is so much to understand. So how do you know if your Day Surgery Clinic is compliant or not?

When it comes down to it, probably the only way to know for sure is have and keep the required documentation.

For an auditor, documentation of process and proof of process is everything. Say what you do and have proof that you're doing it. But in the case of AS4187, it's do what it says and have proof you’re doing it.

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