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aScope 5 Broncho HD Clinical Video: Valve Placement
Single-Use Bronchoscopes: Ready for Prime Time
Topics of discussion include a look at updated single-use comparison studies as well as new information on single-use versus reusable scopes
The Financial Case for Single-Use Endoscopy
Explore the history of single-use endoscopy in the context of other healthcare paradigm shifts and examine how recent evidence supports a single-use future.

Public Health
After issuing a series of warning letters to Olympus, the FDA has issued a recall on a certain model of single-use distal covers for duodenoscopes.

Public Health
But parity remains a long way off — gender lag, for example, contributes to the wage gap since higher proportions of women are now in training and in earlier stages of their careers.

Analyzing Value
As the landscape of esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and bariatric surgery evolves, it will become even more important for facilities to evaluate the true cost per use.

Preventing Infection
The shortage comes as reusable flexible endoscopes are under increasing scrutiny due to reported device-related infections — including from multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Public Health
Bladder cancer is the sixth most-common form of cancer in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute.

Patient Safety
Since new sterile processing guidance entails adding steps, it will take longer to successfully complete what is already a complex and time-consuming process.

Public Health
Several factors contribute to mitigating the effects of burnout among critical care nurses and resiliency was found to be a buffer against burnout in high-stress critical care settings.

Preventing Infection
On any given day, about one in every 31 hospital patients has at least one HAI, according to the CDC — yet most are preventable.

Analyzing Value
A poster presented at the annual conference aims to calculate the true cost per procedure.
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Dr. Jonathan Kurman Discusses How the aScope 5 Broncho Compares to Reusable Bronchoscopes
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