{"id":9009,"date":"2020-10-07T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=9009"},"modified":"2020-10-07T14:37:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:37:57","slug":"first-single-use-duodenoscope-measures-up-in-direct-comparison-for-low-complexity-procedures","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/first-single-use-duodenoscope-measures-up-in-direct-comparison-for-low-complexity-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"First Single-Use Duodenoscope Measures up in Direct Comparison for Low-Complexity Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development of single-use (disposable) endoscopes is one approach to eliminating infection transmission between sequential patients during endoscopy. This single-center study randomized patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) to a traditional reusable instrument or the single-use Exalt Model D duodenoscope (Boston Scientific Corp, Marlborough, Massachusetts). Among 98 predominantly (>80%) low-complexity procedures in 98 patients (50 reusable, 48 single use), the rates for cannulation success, adverse events, cross-over, or use of ancillary cannulation techniques did not differ between instruments, but the median number of cannulation attempts was significantly lower with the single-use instrument (<em>P<\/em>=.013). Following adjustment for patient and procedural characteristics, only the instrument type correlated with &lt;6 attempts to achieve cannulation on multivariate analysis (<em>P<\/em>=.012). In contrast, the single-use instrument was graded \u201csignificantly worse\u201d for image quality (<em>P<\/em>&lt;.001) and stability (<em>P<\/em>&lt;.001), ease of passage to the stomach (P=.047), and function of the air\u2013water button (<em>P<\/em>&lt;.001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of single-use (disposable) endoscopes is one approach to eliminating infection transmission between sequential patients during endoscopy. This single-center study randomized patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) to a traditional reusable instrument or the single-use Exalt Model D duodenoscope (Boston Scientific Corp, Marlborough, Massachusetts). Among 98 predominantly (>80%) low-complexity procedures in 98 patients (50 &#8230; <a title=\"First Single-Use Duodenoscope Measures up in Direct Comparison for Low-Complexity Procedures\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/first-single-use-duodenoscope-measures-up-in-direct-comparison-for-low-complexity-procedures\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Single-Use Duodenoscope Measures up in Direct Comparison for Low-Complexity Procedures\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,67],"tags":[381,2029,2128],"class_list":["post-9009","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-bauchspeicheldruese-pankreas","tag-ercp","tag-fda","tag-pancreatobiliary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/9009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}