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 ...
Duodenoscopes are intricate, snakelike instruments used in more than 500,000 procedures each year in the U.S. The trouble is, they’re made up of many tiny, moving parts and are difficult to properly ...
Several hospitals in the U.S. struggled with dirty, improperly cleaned scopes this year, prompting the ECRI Institute to, yet again; include the safety issue on the 2016 version of its annual list of ...