Endoscope cleaning and disinfecting is a complicated and often costly process, said Sunny Vestal, the regional manager of sterile processing services at Temple, Texas-based Scott & White Medical ...

Endoscopy is a way to examine your digestive tract with a camera, called an endoscope. The endoscope is a flexible tube with a light and the camera attached. Through this state-of-the-art technology, ...

More than 50 million endoscopies are performed yearly in the United States. The risk of acquiring an infection during one of these procedures is exceedingly low, because the current cleaning processes ...

Manual cleaning and high-level disinfection in an automated endoscope reprocessor (AER) may not reliably prevent transmission of multidrug-resistant bacteria by endoscopes used in endoscopic ...

STERIS Corp., a provider of infection prevention and surgical products and services, has announced the launch of a new device for its European markets designed to aid manual reprocessing of endoscopes ...

The FDA continues to make single-use endoscopes available for surgeons’ repertoires—as it looks to cut down on the transmission of infections from patient-to-patient between procedures—with new ...

The aim of minimal invasive surgery (MIS), as the name suggests, is to cause minimal discomfort to patients. Here, endoscopes play a vital role. However, conventional Chip-on-the-Tip endoscopes that ...