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 ...

More than 20 million gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures are performed each year in the United States. According to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), the risk of infection ...

The First Step Flexible Endoscope Bedside Pre-Clean Kit from Cygnus Medical enables GI surgery centers to removing visible bioburden after a procedure — an essential first step in the reprocessing of ...

Proper reprocessing of tools — like endoscopes and other instruments — should be of upmost importance to hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, as it has a major impact on patient safety. According ...

In an agency first, the FDA has cleared a system designed to clean out the complex inner channels of flexible endoscopes—a notorious source of hospital-acquired infections. Nanosonics’ automated CORIS ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After an alcohol flush and air purge using an automated reprocessing machine, 100% of endoscopes were still wet.

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 ...