Oklahoma hospital used dirty gastroscopes on almost 1,000 patients; no infections reported

By Chad Terhune (Reuters) - An unnamed hospital in Oklahoma used contaminated gastroscopes in procedures performed on nearly a thousand patients in recent months, device maker Pentax Medical told U.S. regulators last month, putting the patients at risk of exposure to bacteria that can cause infections. In a July 22 report https://ift.tt/2NGpdju that only recently became public and was reviewed by Reuters, Pentax told the Food and Drug Administration that a hospital used up to four gastroscopes contaminated with bacteria in 998 procedures performed sometime last year through June 2019, when the problem was discovered.

The post Oklahoma hospital used dirty gastroscopes on almost 1,000 patients; no infections reported appeared first on Firstpost.

from Firstpost