The Oregon Patient Safety Commission offers free, downloadable resources for proper and safe reprocessing of endoscopes. The endoscope cleaning and reprocessing policy can serve as a template for ...

The following article is written by Matt Smith, marketing analyst for Healthmark Industries Co. Cross contamination from flexible endoscopes remains one most health technology-related hazards. Every ...

Many patients may be undergoing endoscopy with contaminated instruments, a pair of new studies suggest. Current guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others allow the ...

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 ...

Novia Strategies, a clinician-owned national healthcare consulting firm, has created a four-page checklist to help hospitals meet sterilization and disinfection practice standards and regulatory ...

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 ...