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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — A double-reprocessing protocol can help reduce the rate of duodenoscope-associated infection, new research shows. "Traditionally, most centers use single high-level disinfection. We've ...

New research suggests reprocessing scopes used in gastrointestinal procedures may not completely disinfect the devices. In analyzing 20 fully reprocessed gastroscopes and colonoscopes, authors of a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Almario, Spiegel and colleagues used decision analysis software to compare the cost-effectiveness of the ...

The techniques used to clean and sterilize flexible ureteroscopes leave behind contamination including debris, residue, and bacteria, according to a new study. Researchers concluded that these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arjun Srinivasan, who oversees federal programs to reduce hospital infections, advises senior officials at the Food and Drug Administration that a deadly outbreak of antibiotic-resistant hospital ...