The FDA has issued warning letters to the three manufacturers of duodenoscopes, warning that they have fallen behind on required postmarketing studies imposed after a number of infection outbreaks were…
The FDA has issued new voluntary protocols for hospitals to help ensure that duodenoscopes are properly cleaned and sanitized following a number of deadly hospital infection outbreaks in recent years.
The FDA has ordered duodenoscope makers to conduct new studies to see how the devices are being cleaned in hospitals and what is working and what is not.
The findings of a new study confirm that a deadly, drug-resistant form of E. Coli was spread at a Washington hospital due to contaminated endoscopes.
New instructions for how to sanitize Olypmus duodenoscopes have been approved by the FDA, which urges medical personal to use them to clean the devices.
The FDA is convening an advisory panel to discuss superbug outbreaks and cleaning problems linked to duodenoscopes.
A new report reveals that the makers of endoscopes linked to a superbug outbreak in California never got the devices approved by the FDA.
The FDA is calling an advisory meeting to review endoscope cleaning protocols following deadly outbreaks and poor manufacturers' testing.
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Olympus related to a superbug outbreak spread during ERCP endoscopic procedures.
North Carolina health officials warn that a CRE "superbug" outbreak has killed 1 and sickened 18. It is the same infection that sickened 7 and killed 2 in California.
