Best Practices in Endoscope Reprocessing

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Best Practices in Endoscope Reprocessing

"Possibly the cleaning is one that is more challenging than we thought. Not so much the cleaning of the cystoscope as it is the cleaning of that component that the FDA letter is directly linking to the infections."

October 7, 2021
by Rob Terry



The U.S. Food and Drug Administration revealed in a letter to healthcare providers that it’s investigating numerous medical device reports describing patient infections and other possible contamination issues potentially associated with reprocessed urological endoscopes.

Dr. Larry Muscarella delves into more detail on reprocessing best practices and some of the challenges therein. He also shares his key takeaways from the FDA letter — for clinicians, regulators and healthcare consumers alike.

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