Advances in minimally invasive surgery have enabled patients to visit outpatient gastrointestinal facilities for procedures rather than hospital operating rooms. Infection prevention is a top priority ...

More than 20 million gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures are performed each year in the United States. According to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), the risk of infection ...

Existing endoscope reprocessing techniques are not consistently effective, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control. The study shows all 20 endoscopes had visual ...

The Minnesota Department of Health has issued a memo to healthcare facilities regarding proper reprocessing of endoscopes. According to the memo, several healthcare facilities have contacted the ...

Because proper endoscope reprocessing is critical to patient safety, ENDORA, which stands for Endoscope Reprocessing Assurance, was designed to alert the operator and send an email notification to ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP) announced today it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the ASP AEROFLEX™ Automatic ...

Potentially harmful bacteria can survive on endoscopes used to examine the interior of the digestive tract, despite a multi-step cleaning and disinfecting process, according to a study published in ...

Despite a multistep cleaning and disinfecting process, potentially harmful bacteria survive on colonoscopes and gastroscopes used to examine the gastrointestinal tract, according to a new study ...

With its warning of risks associated with urological endoscopes, FDA's focus expands to a second category of endoscopic devices that are used in multiple patients and disinfected between procedures.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After an alcohol flush and air purge using an automated reprocessing machine, 100% of endoscopes were still wet.

SILVER SPRING, Md., April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is investigating numerous medical device reports (MDRs) describing patient infections and ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mobile Aspects announced today the commercial availability of an enhanced design of its RFID enabled endoscope tracking system, iRIScope. Targeted at increasing care ...