Olympus Receives 510(k) Clearance for TJF-Q180V Duodenoscope
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympus announced today that FDA has cleared the 510(k) for the TJF-Q180V duodenoscope with modifications to the device design and labeling. The...
View ArticleOlympus Receives 510(k) Clearance for TJF-Q180V Duodenoscope (Olympus America...
(Source: Olympus America Inc) CENTER VALLEY, Pa., (January 15, 2016) � Olympus announced today that FDA has cleared the 510(k) for the TJF-Q180V duodenoscope with modifications to the device design and...
View ArticleOlympus Releases Statement in Response to US Senate HELP Committee Report
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Democratic staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions released today a report that is an important contribution to...
View ArticleOlympus Releases Statement in Response to US Senate HELP Committee Report...
(Source: Olympus America Inc) CENTER VALLEY, Pa., (January 13, 2016) - The Democratic staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions released today a report that is an important...
View ArticleNew lawsuits filed against scope maker in deadly UCLA superbug outbreak
In response to the superbug outbreak at UCLA, the family of a 41-year-old patient who died in January has sued a medical device maker for wrongful death. The family of Silvia Patricia Aroche sued...
View ArticleLawsuit Filed over Death of Patient who Contracted Fatal Superbug, Allegedly...
(Source: Parker Waichman LLP) Lawsuit Filed over Death of Patient who Contracted Fatal Superbug, Allegedly Due to Pentax Scope Sep 3, 2015 A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in connection with the...
View ArticleLos Angeles hospital 'superbug' takes toll on infected
Among the seven people infected by a "superbug" outbreak tied to medical instruments at a Los Angeles hospital is an 18-year-old student who has spent nearly three months in the hospital and is in...
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Believing that pancreatic cancer ended her husband’s life in August 2013 — six days shy of their 35th wedding anniversary — was wrenching enough, said Theresa Bigler. But learning now, more than a year...
View ArticleHow to Stop Duodenoscope Infections Recommendations from "Getting to Zero:"...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A growing number of antibiotic-resistant infections have been reported following use of a specialized medical device called a duodenoscope,...
View ArticleSuperbug outbreaks: FDA issues more scope-cleaning guidance to hospitals
Food and Drug Administration officials are recommending additional steps hospitals can take to clean medical scopes that have been tied to deadly superbug outbreaks across the country. The...
View ArticleOlympus scopes may have infected more patients, Seattle health agency says
More patients across the country may have been infected by medical scopes manufactured by Olympus Corp. than previously thought, health officials warned Monday. Olympus' scopes are at the center of a...
View ArticleVA probing whether scopes gave patients superbug infections
Veterans Affairs Department officials are investigating whether patients have been exposed to antibiotic-resistant superbugs from tainted medical scopes in the wake of several hospital...
View ArticleDuodenoscope Makers Must Perform Safety Studies, FDA Says (Parker Waichman LLP)
(Source: Parker Waichman LLP) Oct 7, 2015 Olympus American, Fuji Medical Systems and Hoya Corp. must perform safety studies to assess whether or not their duodenoscopes are being cleaned according to...
View ArticleLawmaker asks SEC to investigate Olympus over failure to disclose outbreak...
A U.S. lawmaker is calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Olympus Corp. in response to a Times article showing the company's involvement in a 2012 superbug outbreak in the...
View ArticleWhy California's Superbug Outbreak Isn't As Scary As It Seems (Rutgers...
(Source: Rutgers University) A particularly nasty type of gut bacteria with the nickname CRE is resistant even to carbapenems, a family of last-resort antibiotics. CDC itoggle captionCDC A particularly...
View ArticleUCLA superbug: Maker of scopes in deadly outbreak under federal probe
UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times Seven patients at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Westwood have been infected with a drug-resistant bacteria and two died....
View ArticleFinger-pointing, lawsuits likely to follow 'superbug' scare
Add comment Reprints + - Dr. Zachary Rubin, medical director of clinical epidemiology and infection prevention at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, right, takes questions from the media in Los...
View ArticleWidow sues Seattle hospital over 'superbug' death
SEATTLE — A widow is suing a Seattle hospital and a medical device manufacturer over the death of her husband following a drug-resistant "superbug" infection. In the lawsuit filed in King County...
View ArticleSuperbug outbreaks: Olympus failed to report infections for 3 years, FDA says
Scope maker Olympus Corp., already under investigation in connection with several superbug outbreaks, waited three years to tell regulators about 16 patient infections the company learned about in...
View ArticleSuperbug spreads to Cedars-Sinai, hospital blames scopes
Four patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center were infected by a drug-resistant bacteria after undergoing an endoscopic procedure with the same manufacture’s device that caused two deaths among seven...
View Article‘Superbug’ outbreak in Washington state sparks changes at hospitals
SEATTLE — An outbreak of drug-resistant “superbug” infections may have sent officials at Virginia Mason Medical Center scrambling for solutions, but hospitals across Seattle — and beyond — say they’re...
View ArticleLargest outbreak of dangerous bacteria in U.S. tied to Park Ridge hospital
The largest outbreak of a very specific and very dangerous bacteria in the U.S. has been linked to procedures performed at a north suburban hospital last year. The Centers for Disease Control and...
View Article'Superbug' outbreak at UCLA hospital raises questions about specialized...
Published February 20, 2015Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 Email Print This undated photo provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows the tip of an endoscopic retrograde...
View ArticleDuodenoscopes used in Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (TGA -...
(Source: TGA - Therapeutic Goods Administration) The TGA is aware that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a safety communication regarding duodenoscopes(link is external) used in...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About ‘Superbug’ CRE
What You Should Know About ‘Superbug’ CRE WebMD Health News By Kathleen Doheny Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD More from WebMD Medical Marijuana State Action in 2014Survey Finds Support for Vaccine...
View ArticleNew Superbug Outbreak: 4 Infected, 67 Exposed At L.A. Hospital From...
Contaminated medical devices have been a primary source of new superbug outbreaks, as the Inquisitr previously reported. Two people died at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center a short time ago. On...
View ArticleUCLA superbug: Lawmaker asks Congress to investigate FDA response
Ted Lieu Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) By Chad Terhune contact the reporter UCLA CRE Infections U.S. Congress Henry A Waxman Ted Lieu UCLA...
View ArticleFDA says firms have twice failed to show scopes can be rid of superbugs
FDA says firms have twice failed to show scopes can be rid of superbugs Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press Two patients have died at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center from contaminated...
View ArticleNY health officials monitoring 3 cases of 'nightmare bacteria' in Nassau County
Add comment Reprints + - In this undated photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is one form of CRE bacteria, sometimes called "nightmare bacteria." CRE bacteria is blamed for...
View ArticleAnother outbreak from tainted scopes suspected at a SoCal hospital
A Pasadena hospital is investigating a suspected outbreak related to the same type of medical scope tied to superbug infections across the country, the Los Angeles Times has learned. Huntington...
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An outbreak of drug-resistant superbugs spread by contaminated medical scopes infected at least 32 patients at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle between 2012 and 2014, new reports show. Eleven...
View ArticleOlympus Revises Duodenoscope Reprocessing Instructions (AGA - American...
(Source: AGA - American Gastroenterological Association) June 1, 2015 A revised reprocessing manual has been released by Olympus for the TJF-Q180V duodenoscope. Olympus released its for reprocessing...
View ArticleGastroenterology Societies Discuss Patient Safety in Gastrointestinal...
(Source: ASGE - American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) Microsoft Word - PublicMessage_FINAL_ASGE_AGA_ACG_SAGES_AASLD Gastroenterology Societies Discuss Patient Safety in Gastrointestinal...
View ArticleFDA reveals 142 cases of tainted scopes
Federal regulators shed more light on the potential harm to patients from a controversial medical scope, disclosing 142 reports of contaminated devices and possible patient infections since 2010. The...
View ArticleGastroenterology Societies Discuss Patient Safety in Gastrointestinal...
(Source: AGA - American Gastroenterological Association) Article Gastroenterology Societies Discuss Patient Safety in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy What you need to know From AGA, AASLD, ACG, ASGE &...
View ArticleOlympus Expands VisiGlide Guidewire Lineup to Deliver Full Spectrum Solution...
(Source: Gyrus ACMI Inc) Newest VisiGlide 2TM Guidewire from Olympus Delivers Precise Handling for Therapeutic Work in Sensitive Anatomy CENTER VALLEY, Pa., (October 20, 2014) - Olympus, a global...
View ArticleGastroenterology Societies Discuss Patient Safety in Gastrointestinal...
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Jan. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patient safety is a primary concern for gastrointestinal endoscopists. You may have recently heard or read about the spread of infection of...
View ArticleSuperbug outbreak extends to Cedars-Sinai hospital, linked to scope
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Frederic J. Brown / AFP/Getty Images Four people have been infected with a superbug linked to a contaminated medical scope, Cedars Sinai has discovered, and 68 others may...
View ArticleSuperbug strikes for second time in California
A second top Los Angeles hospital has reported an outbreak of drug-resistant "superbug" infections, and dozens more potential exposures, from procedures performed with a fibre-optic instrument called a...
View ArticleOlympus Expands VisiGlide Guidewire Lineup to Deliver Full Spectrum Solution...
Olympus VisiGlide 2 guidewires provide precise handling for sensitive anatomy in the biliary tract. Facebook Twitter Pinterest × Olympus VisiGlide 2 guidewires provide precise handling for sensitive...
View ArticleOlympus modified medical device linked to deadly 'superbug' outbreak, sold it...
Olympus Corp. began selling an endoscope linked to the deadly "superbug" outbreak in Los Angeles before modifications to the medical device received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance. Olympus...
View ArticleUCLA hospital cites medical scopes in superbug CRE outbreak
Los Angeles (CNN)The superbug CRE outbreak connected to two patient deaths at a UCLA hospital was caused by two medical scopes that still carried the deadly bacteria even after disinfection guidelines...
View ArticleOlympus Expands VisiGlide Guidewire Lineup to Deliver Full Spectrum Solution...
(Source: Olympus America Inc) Newest VisiGlide 2TM Guidewire from Olympus Delivers Precise Handling for Therapeutic Work in Sensitive Anatomy CENTER VALLEY, Pa., (October 20, 2014) - Olympus, a global...
View ArticleOlympus medical device linked to 'superbug' infections at second Los Angeles...
Courtesy photo A second Los Angeles hospital says some of its patients were infected with an antibiotic-resistant bacteria after undergoing procedures performed with a medical device manufactured by...
View ArticleOlympus to Distribute Terumo GLIDEWIRE®, Endoscopic Hydrophilic Coated...
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., Dec. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympus, a global technology leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions for medical and surgical procedures, among other core businesses,...
View ArticleUnderstanding CRE, the 'nightmare' superbug that contributed to 2 deaths in L.A.
(CNN)The term "nightmare bacteria" does not bode well for anyone who may get infected. That's what CDC epidemiologists call carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, which kill up to half the...
View ArticleWrongful Death Lawsuit Filed over Infection Linked to Duodenoscope (Parker...
(Source: Parker Waichman LLP) Nov 25, 2015 The family of a man who died from an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection following a routine medical procedure has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against...
View ArticleOlympus to Distribute Terumo GLIDEWIRE®, Endoscopic Hydrophilic Coated...
(Source: Olympus America Inc) Olympus Extends Its EndoTherapy Guidewire Line-Up to Provide the Proven, Preferred GLIDEWIRE Endoscopic Hydrophilic Coated Guidewire CENTER VALLEY, Pa., December 15, 2015...
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