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Mashup Score: 9These Devices Sickened Hundreds. The New Models Have Risks, Too. - 1 year(s) ago
Duodenoscopes — tubular cameras threaded into the intestine — with disposable parts were supposed to be safer. But the parts can fall off in the body, the F.D.A. warned.
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Mashup Score: 0Disposable elevator cap duodenoscopes outperform standard design in contamination rate - 1 year(s) ago
Disposable elevator cap duodenoscopes decreased the risk for persistent microbial contamination while maintaining technical performance in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, according to data in JAMA Internal Medicine. “Several novel duodenoscope designs have emerged, including entirely disposable duodenoscopes, whose high costs and suboptimal technical performance collectively
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Mashup Score: 0Quality Assurance in Endoscopic Infection Control, Disposable Duodenoscopes, and the Environmental Impact of Endoscopy - 1 year(s) ago
Increased attention has been directed in recent years to the reprocessing of gastrointestinal endoscopes, largely driven by concerns over infectious complications linked to duodenoscopes. Duodenoscopes clearly present numerous challenges to effective reprocessing. Accordingly, multiple enhanced reprocessing methods, including sterilization, repeat high level disinfection, and microbiological…
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Mashup Score: 05 innovations to make duodenoscopes more single-use — and save lives - Medical Tubing and Extrusion - 2 year(s) ago
Duodenoscopes are important medical devices that are used for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedures. However, the devices have had serious problems in the past.
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Mashup Score: 0Quality Assurance in Endoscopic Infection Control, Disposable Duodenoscopes, and the Environmental Impact of Endoscopy - 2 year(s) ago
Increased attention has been directed in recent years to the reprocessing of gastrointestinal endoscopes, largely driven by concerns over infectious complications linked to duodenoscopes. Duodenoscopes clearly present numerous challenges to effective reprocessing. Accordingly, multiple enhanced reprocessing methods, including sterilization, repeat high level disinfection, and microbiological…
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Mashup Score: 3
The FDA has issued an updated safety communication supporting the transition to fully disposable duodenoscopes and those with disposable components.
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Mashup Score: 05 innovations to make duodenoscopes more single-use — and save lives - Medical Tubing and Extrusion - 2 year(s) ago
Duodenoscopes are important medical devices that are used for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedures. However, the devices have had serious problems in the past.
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Mashup Score: 0
New single-use duodenoscopes could have higher financial and environmental costs than the reusable standbys at high-volume endoscopy centers, according to two studies presented at the 2021 virtual Digestive Disease Week.
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Mashup Score: 1CMS grants reimbursement for single-use duodenoscope - 3 year(s) ago
Boston Scientific announced CMS granted a new technology add-on payment for single-use duodenoscopes applicable to the EXALT Model D Single-Use Duodenoscope as part of its Fiscal Year 2022 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System. Yearly, clinicians perform more than 700,000 endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedures in the U.S. with approximately 1.5 million completed
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Mashup Score: 7GI Innovation Series: Advances in Infection Control in Endoscopy - 3 year(s) ago
Module 1: Defining the Problem with Infection Control Issues in Endoscopy This module gives a brief history of how duodenoscope-related infections from Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedures came to light and provides the factors that contribute to them in detail. Module 2: Potential Novel…
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