Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has reported four patients contracted “superbug” infections from the same type of endoscope that caused similar problems at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical ...

This article was written by Marc Esquenet, VP Research and Development, The RUHOF CORPORATION, U.S.A. Learn more about THE RUHOF CORPORATION here. The field of endoscopy encompasses a wide range of ...

Rigorous cleaning practices don’t ensure that medical scopes are free of contamination, and many of these reusable devices have scratches and dents that could harbor blood, tissue and bacteria, a new ...

Custom Ultrasonic scope-cleaning machines can cost $30,000 to $50,000 and typically take about 30 minutes to wash scopes with disinfectant following some manual cleaning. About 1,000 hospitals and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has dropped a recall of about 2,800 scope-cleaning machines used at hospitals and clinics nationwide despite a finding by a top agency scientist last year that ...

Six months ago, the FDA ruled that a machine tied to a dangerous superbug outbreak needed to be taken off the market to protect public health. However, the machine remains in use after FDA officials ...

Custom Ultrasonics scope-cleaning machines can cost $30,000 to $50,000 and typically take about 30 minutes to wash scopes with disinfectant following some manual cleaning. About 1,000 hospitals and ...