Poor leak testing forcing scope repair costs to rise.

Healthcare Purchasing News | June 1, 2000| | Copyright

Experts: Checks should be made prior to disinfection

Always important for surgical and sterilization personnel in the past, the repair of flexible endoscopes may have recently entered a critical, new stage.

Experts say there is increasing evidence that flexible scopes are being pushed into harder, longer service, leading to larger repair expenses and budgets.

That's hardly good news for hospital managers already feeling pressure to do more with less.

But here's the rub: The leading cause of costly flexible endoscope repairs continues to ...

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