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Maintain High Flexible Scope Reprocessing Standards
Infection rates are low, but the process is still error-prone. Here's a refresher.
Chris Morkides, Contributing Editor

While endoscopy-related infections are estimated to occur just once in every 1.8 million procedures (or roughly six in the 10 million procedures annually), they do happen.

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