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 ...
Duodenoscopes — a specific type of endoscope used in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedures — have been tied to numerous infections and even patient deaths at hospitals across the ...