Becker's Hospital Review

How to safely reprocess scopes tied to ‘superbug’ infections: Experts weigh in

Duodenoscopes — a specific type of endoscope used in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedures — have been tied to numerous infections and even patient deaths at hospitals across the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

APIC, SHEA weigh in on infections tied to ERCP scopes

Infection preventionists and healthcare epidemiologists can play a “significant role” in helping hospital endoscopy departments reduce or eliminate infections caused from duodenoscopes, according to a ...
Morning Call PA

What patients undergoing a scope procedure should do

Lawrence Muscarella, a medical safety expert and president of LFM Healthcare Solutions in Montgomeryville, Montgomery County, offers the following advice for patients who may be scheduled for a ...
Healio

Scope contamination occurs despite reprocessing guideline compliance

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Persistent bacterial growth, sometimes of high-concern pathogens, can occur on duodenoscopes and linear ...
Healio

Single-use duodenoscopes offer viable alternative for ERCP

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Single-use duodenoscopes offered similar technical and safety outcomes in endoscopic retrograde ...
Seattle Times

Germs cling to hard-to-clean medical scopes, Swedish and other Providence hospitals find

Medical scopes used at 21 Providence Health & Services hospitals in Washington and four other states remained contaminated with bacteria even after cleaning — the same problem that has led to possibly ...
Star Tribune

FDA says Boston Scientific's new single-use scope a step forward in safety

With encouragement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. will start selling single-use medical scopes next year that retail for a few thousand ...
Morning Call PA

Lehigh Valley hospitals guard against tainted scopes

That patient underwent an ERCP and EUS procedure at LVHN and tested positive for infection, Burger said. The ERCP scope used on the patient tested negative, spokesman Brian Downs said, and the patient ...
MedPage Today

Duodenoscopes With Disposable Caps Led to Less Microbial Contamination

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Business Wire

Iterative Scopes DDW Presentation Shows Accuracy of Automated Endoscopic Disease Scoring Model, With Potential to Accelerate IBD Clinical Trials

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iterative Scopes, a pioneer in precision medicine technologies for gastroenterology, announced today that data presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2022 show ...
Medical Xpress

Properly sterilizing scopes still a challenge, experts say

Maybe you're getting a gallstone removed or maybe your doctor says there's a new way to remove a painful kidney stone. There's a medical device to pluck them out, but how clean is it? Years after ...