National guidelines for the cleaning of certain gastrointestinal scopes are likely to be updated due to findings from an infection prevention team. Approximately 11 million gastrointestinal ...
Shaun Sweeney, vice president of sales and marketing for Cygnus Medical, which specializes in products and services for the endoscopy suite, operating room and sterile processing department, describes ...
Changing the cleaning process of certain gastrointestinal scopes led to a major decrease in healthcare-associated infections at UPMC, according to a study to be presented at ID Week 2014. The UPMC ...
Gastroenterology-focused software company Iterative Scopes is bringing its AI Recruitment technology to One GI. AI Recruitment will be used to help recruit patients for clinical trials focused on ...
A 73-year-old woman presented with a major episode of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding requiring upper endoscopy and colonoscopy. She underwent cytoreductive surgery for ovarian carcinoma involving ...
A surprising ingredient — infant gas relief drops — may be contributing to the contamination of medical scopes nationwide and putting more patients at risk of infection, according to a small but ...
Olympus today introduced the world's smallest gastrointestinal videoscope to offer four-way angulation and Narrow Band Imaging ™ (NBI) to detect upper gastrointestinal abnormalities. The super-slim ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to Dennis M. Jensen, MD, FACG, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los ...
The number of potentially deadly infections from contaminated medical scopes is far higher than what federal officials previously estimated, a new congressional investigation shows. As many as 350 ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iterative Scopes, a pioneer in precision-medicine technologies for gastroenterology, announced today that it has partnered with One GI®, a gastroenterology ...
In response to a series of superbug outbreaks around the country, some doctors and hospitals are trying out disposable scopes to combat the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. U.S. regulators ...
In response to a series of superbug outbreaks around the country, some doctors and hospitals are trying out disposable scopes to combat the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. U.S. regulators ...