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Factors associated with damages and repair costs of reusable flexible bronchoscopes in pediatrics in China [PDF]

BMC Pediatrics
Background Frequent repairs of pediatric flexible bronchoscopes can lead to a huge financial burden for the hospital. This study aimed to investigate the common causes of the failures in pediatric flexible bronchoscopes and propose the measures to ...
Ruixue Hu, Yanhua Chen, Sixin Jiang, Ting Hu, Juanli Huang, Lu Zhang, Wei Pan, Liangying Yi, Yan Huang   +8 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Single use and conventional bronchoscopes for Broncho alveolar lavage (BAL) in research: a comparative study (NCT 02515591) [PDF]

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2017
Background Broncho alveolar lavage (BAL) is widely used for investigative research to study innate, cellular and humoral immune responses, and in early phase drug trials.
Seher Raza Zaidi, Andrea M. Collins, Elena Mitsi, Jesús Reiné, Kayleigh Davies, Angela D Wright, Jessica Owugha, Richard Fitzgerald, Amitava Ganguli, Stephen B Gordon, Daniela Mulari Ferreira, Jamie Rylance   +11 more
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Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy with single use bronchoscopes versus reusable bronchoscopes – a prospective randomized trial (TraSUB)

BMC Anesthesiology, 2022
Background Apart from conventional reusable bronchoscopes, single-use bronchoscopes (SUB) were recently introduced. Data suggest that SUB might prevent from the risk of cross contamination (i.e. multiresistant pathogens, SARS CoV-2) and save costs.
Pischtaz Adel Tariparast, Andrés Brockmann, Rainer Hartwig, Stefan Kluge, Jörn Grensemann   +4 more
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Single-Use and Reusable Flexible Bronchoscopes in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Diagnostics, 2022
Flexible bronchoscopy plays a critical role in both diagnostic and therapeutic management of a variety of pulmonary disorders in the bronchoscopy suite and the intensive care unit.
Elliot Ho, Ajay Wagh, Kyle Hogarth, Septimiu Murgu   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Single-use flexible bronchoscopes vs traditional reusable flexible bronchoscopes: a prospective controlled study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2023
Background Single-use flexible bronchoscopes(SFB) eliminate the risk of bronchoscopy-related infection compared with traditional reusable flexible bronchoscopes(RFB).
Shuzhen He, Lihua Xie, Jianming Liu, Lijun Zou   +3 more
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Single-use vs. reusable flexible bronchoscopes for airway management and in critical care: a narrative review. [PDF]

Anaesthesia
Flexible bronchoscopes have become essential in the operating theatre environment and in critical care. This narrative review compared single‐use and reusable flexible bronchoscopes with a focus on safety, efficacy, cost‐effectiveness and environmental ...
Boyd S, Murphy CJ, Snyman L.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Adoption of Improved Reprocessing Decreased Microbiological Non-Compliance for Bronchoscopes [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Background: In the past few decades, the inadequate reprocessing of bronchoscopes has been associated with several serious outbreaks caused by multidrug-resistant microorganisms.
Baggiani, Angelo, Barnini, Simona, Briani, Silvia, Casini, Beatrice, Cosci, Tommaso, Cristina, Maria Luisa, Leonetti, Simone, Luchini, Grazia, Ribechini, Alessandro, Scarpaci, Michela, Totaro, Michele, Tuvo, Benedetta   +11 more
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The Cost of Flexible Bronchoscopes:A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]

PharmacoEconomics - Open, 2022
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Until 2009, only reusable bronchoscopes were marketed, but the introduction and widespread adoption of single-use flexible bronchoscopes (SFBs) as an emerging technology has since accelerated.
Andersen, Carina Østervig, Dehlholm-Lambertsen, Emilie, Jørgensen, Emmelie Ploug, Russell, Rasmus, Travis, Helena   +4 more
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Mycobacterial contamination of bronchoscopes: Challenges and possible solutions in low resource settings

International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2016
The use of bronchoscopes has increased in tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics to circumvent the diagnostic challenges that are associated with low sputum volume and smear-negative TB.
Dania Khalid Saeed, Sadia Shakoor, Seema Irfan, Rumina Hasan   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

With the current COVID pandemic: should we use single-use flexible bronchoscopes instead of conventional bronchoscopes?

Critical Care, 2020
We would like to describe the numerous advantages of single-use bronchoscopes over conventional bronchoscopes especially during the COVID pandemic. Recently, Zaidi et al.
Patrick M. Honore, Aude Mugisha, Luc Kugener, Sebastien Redant, Rachid Attou, Andrea Gallerani, David De Bels   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources