FDA Panel Calls Duodenoscopes Unsafe

FDA Panel Calls Duodenoscopes Unsafe. A Food and Drug Administration panel on May 15 concluded that the current generation duodenoscopes are unsafe as designed, the Los Angeles Times reports. However, the panel stopped short of recommending the FDA halt further use of the duodenoscopes.

The FDA convened the meeting of the 16-member advisory panel as part of its response to duodenoscope-related infections that have occurred in at least eight US hospitals.

The panel did not endorse any one method to reduce the risk of infection, but several panel members expressed support for sterilization of duodenoscopes.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scope-infections-20150516-story.html