Lawrence F Muscarella, PhD, is the president of LFM Healthcare Solutions, LLC — LFM-HCS, for short — which he founded in 2013.
He is an internationally known biomedical engineer and medical device expert with more than 25 years of experience. Email Dr. Muscarella with your confidential inquiry or request.
Dr. Muscarella and his company provide expert consultations and services focusing on medical device designs, infection-control lapses and the causes (and prevention of healthcare-associated infections, among other topics and disciplines.
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Dr. Muscarella provides clients with expert consultations and guidance on the following topics, among others:
- the causes (and prevention) of hospital infections
- injury case reviews
- medical device design (including design controls)
- risk assessments and hazard analyses
- disinfection and sterilization
- decontamination protocols
- validations and verifications
- instrument reprocessing
- adverse event reporting
- research and development projects
- regulatory submissions
- quality control and assurance
- marketing and branding
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LFM Healthcare Solutions, LLC | P.O. Box 684, Montgomeryville PA 18936.
It is interesting to me that no one is looking at the fact that hospitals are putting Pulmonary and GI services in the same procedural areas. Hospitals are reprocessing and even storing scopes in the same areas expecting safe results. This practice compromises the integrity of basic cleaning strategies.
David, Your point is well-taken. Often, bronchoscopes and GI endoscopes are reprocessed in the same sink or processing chamber. While this practice is consistent with the current standard of care, one is now compelled to ask whether it might require modification, especially if this practice were demonstrated to pose an increased risk of contaminating bronchoscopes with “CRE” and other bacteria indigenous to the GI tract.