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Response to the FDA’s Draft Guidance Document on the Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Devices

February 7, 2015 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

February 5, 2015 — This article presents Dr. Muscarella’s response submitted in August 2011 to the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in reply to the Agency’s request earlier that…

Disposable Irrigation Tubing Endoscope Reprocessing Food and Drug Administration

FDA Soliciting Public Comment on the Safe Use of Disposable Irrigation Tubing

January 23, 2015 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

The FDA is now soliciting stakeholders and the public to comment on its just-published draft guidance document entitled: “Mitigating the Risk of Cross-Contamination from Valves and Accessories Used for Irrigation…

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Bronchoscopes Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Cystoscopes Device Recalls Endoscope Sampling Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) FUJIFILM Klebsiella pneumoniae Olympus Outbreak Investigations Pentax Superbugs University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Superbugs, Contaminated Gastrointestinal Endoscopes, and a Growing Number of Hospital Infections: Is an FDA Action Imminent?

December 2, 2014 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

December 2, 2014 — Two superbug outbreaks of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae were recently linked to contaminated gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopes. These “nightmarish” bacteria are often abbreviated as CRE. These two outbreaks were…

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Response to the FDA’s Draft Guidance Document on the Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Devices

FDA Soliciting Public Comment on the Safe Use of Disposable Irrigation Tubing

Superbugs, Contaminated Gastrointestinal Endoscopes, and a Growing Number of Hospital Infections: Is an FDA Action Imminent?

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A Proposal to Include ‘Endoscope-Associated Infections’ as a Reportable Medicare Measure to Promote Patient Safety

Hundreds of Thousands of Device Reports Were Submitted Late to FDA, a New Study Has Found, Raising Safety Questions

Endoscopy Patients at Vanderbilt Potentially Exposed to HIV and Hepatitis, County Officials Have Confirmed

Dr. Muscarella’s Recent Recommendations to Medicare to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections