Latest Bronchoscopy Podcast Episodes
A Day in the Life of an ENT Resident
Endoscopy Insights - December 09, 2022 17:39 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Wesley Stepp is a resident at the University of North Carolina’s Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. UNC is a national leader in training the next generation of ear, nose and throat surgeons and Dr. Stepp brings an interesting perspective to this kind of work. Not just beca...
Comparing Single-Use and Reusable Bronchoscopes for Interventional Pulmonology
Endoscopy Insights - November 03, 2022 12:20 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe conventional wisdom in interventional pulmonology has long been that reusable bronchoscopes perform better than their single-use counterparts, but new research counters that thinking. A recent study, part of a poster presentation at the World Congress for Bronchology and Interventional Pu...
Navigating Career Paths and Challenges in Flexible Endoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - October 20, 2022 13:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Marybeth Spanarkel describes GI endoscopy as a labor of love. You can hear the passion in her voice when she talks about performing a procedure and the gratification that comes from getting an immediate medical answer to the clinical question that’s being asked. Spanarkel, however, suffere...
Right Pocket, Left Pocket: Achieving Buy-In for Single-Use
Endoscopy Insights - October 06, 2022 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHealthcare staff shortages, while not new, have spawned a world today where it can take five hours to get an X-ray for a dislocated elbow and another two to get pain medication for the injury. Ambulances sometimes wait eight hours to drop off a patient, and nurses work 12- to 16-hour shifts, wit...
Leading with Value to the Patient
Endoscopy Insights - September 15, 2022 11:43 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMedical device suppliers and group purchasing organizations are teaming to bring new healthcare innovations such as single-use endoscopes to hospitals and health systems. By creating specific single-use endoscope categories for their members, these healthcare improvement companies can help acc...
Calculating the Total Cost of Care
Endoscopy Insights - September 01, 2022 12:38 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTransitioning from reusable to single-use endoscopes has obvious infection control benefits and even provides workflow and efficiency advantages — but the financial implications are usually one of the biggest hurdles to implementation. That’s why it’s important to explore all the variables tha...
How Effective is Flexible Ureteroscope Reprocessing?
Endoscopy Insights - August 18, 2022 15:33 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a letter to healthcare providers in April 2021 announcing its investigation into numerous medical device reports involving reprocessed urological endoscopes, Dr. Seth Bechis and his colleagues set out to learn more about reprocessing and its ef...
Becoming a Next-Gen Urologist
Endoscopy Insights - August 04, 2022 15:21 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMatthew Katz was at Weill Cornell Medicine when a chance digital encounter ended up steering him into urology. “If you had asked me what a urologist did before medical school I probably wouldn’t have been able to answer the question,” he told me self-deprecatingly when we chatted at the Americ...
Mentoring and Empowering Women in Endoscopy, Part 2
Endoscopy Insights - July 21, 2022 12:38 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEmpowering women in endoscopy is something Dr. Arthi Sanjeevi is clearly passionate about. It shows in her work mentoring young gastroenterologists and in the way she tackles gender-related challenges in the field. In this conversation, Dr. Sanjeevi discusses what’s missing when it comes to em...
Mentoring and Empowering Women in Endoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - July 07, 2022 12:07 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Arthi Sanjeevi remembers a fellowship during her residency, when a mentor played a key role in helping guide her career path. Seeing her passion for therapeutic endoscopy — and her ability to perform the complex procedures — he gave Sanjeevi the push she needed. Dr. Sanjeevi does the same ...
The State of Bladder Cancer Awareness and Research
Endoscopy Insights - June 02, 2022 13:01 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMay was Bladder Cancer Awareness Month, so we wanted to share a conversation with Dr. Yair Lotan on the state of bladder cancer awareness and research, his work with the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, and some of the advancements in bladder cancer research that most excite him. Dr. Lotan is...
Study Probes FDA Adverse Event Data Tied to Flexible Endoscopes
Endoscopy Insights - May 05, 2022 13:07 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA comprehensive review and analysis of adverse event reports involving flexible endoscopes filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows a marked increase for six types of scopes from 2014 through 2021. The analysis was undertaken by Dr. Larry Muscarella, president of LFM Healthcare Solu...
How Single-Use Cystoscopes Solved Continuation of Care Challenges from Major Floods
Endoscopy Insights - April 07, 2022 13:15 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA storm dumped three to five inches of rain in the Detroit metro area one day in June 2021, and a major flood forced a Michigan urology clinic to close. Urologists with Henry Ford Health System were forced to quickly pivot and take all their patients coming in for clinic appointments and procedu...
The Economics of Cystoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - March 03, 2022 13:43 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA micro-cost analysis published in Urology broke down per-procedural costs for cystoscopy and explored how single-use cystoscopes might provide a cost-effective option for providers. One of the authors of that study, Dr. Yair Lotan, is our guest on the newest episode of Endoscopy Insights and he...
Let’s Talk About Efficiency in Flexible Endoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - February 03, 2022 13:28 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsImproving workflows to better meet your patients where they are — whether they find themselves in an ICU bed or at a satellite clinic — is something all patients and providers can be happy about. As we learn from two clinicians in this episode, when they have equipment that is portable, easily de...
Ergonomics Challenges in GI Endoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - January 06, 2022 13:52 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Marybeth Spanarkel loved the “immediate gratification” in performing a colonoscopy or upper GI endoscopy and getting an immediate answer to a medical question. Unfortunately, she had to step away from the field after 28 years in private practice in Durham, North Carolina, after a career-en...
Study: Single-Use Bronchoscope Can Reduce Readmission Rates, Infection Risk
Endoscopy Insights - December 02, 2021 12:41 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHospitals that perform bronchoscopies can reduce readmission rates by over half, and potentially lower costs, by adopting single-use flexible bronchoscopes. That’s according to a new abstract that was submitted and presented at the recently completed CHEST 2021 annual meeting. The study examin...
The Evolution of Single-Use Urologic Endoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - November 04, 2021 13:02 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA recent study conducted at Duke University Hospital and published in the Journal of Endourology found that a new single-use cystoscope demonstrated superior flexion and comparable optics to the reusable scopes already being used in a hospital urology department. Dr. Michael Lipkin, a urologi...
Best Practices in Endoscope Reprocessing
Endoscopy Insights - September 20, 2021 16:31 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration revealed in a letter to healthcare providers that it’s investigating numerous medical device reports describing patient infections and other possible contamination issues potentially associated with reprocessed urological endoscopes. Dr. Larry Muscarella del...
FDA Investigating Reports of Infections Associated with Reprocessed Urological Endoscopes
Endoscopy Insights - September 20, 2021 16:27 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating “numerous” medical device reports (MDRs) describing patient infections and other possible contamination issues possibly associated with reprocessed urological endoscopes. Dr. Larry Muscarella, an independent safety expert who advises hospita...
The FDA’s Safety Communication Update for Reprocessing Bronchoscopes
Endoscopy Insights - September 20, 2021 16:22 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently updated a safety communication on reprocessing flexible bronchoscopes. In that update, the FDA recommends, among other things, that healthcare providers consider using single-use bronchoscopes when there is increased risk of spreading infection and ...
Infection Control Risks and Endoscopy
Endoscopy Insights - September 20, 2021 16:12 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat are the challenges, and potential missteps, when it comes to reprocessing bronchoscopes, GI endoscopes and ureteroscopes? How have guidelines and standards evolved? And how has COVID-19 flipped the script when it comes to pursuing evidence-based strategies to eliminate infections related to...
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