…on the new Website: disposable-scope-system.org.

Shortly you will find here all informations on the disposable-endoscope-system. We would like to present to you the advantages this innovation offers and also the new possibilities that we gain from the new diagnostic methods.

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Abstract: The surface of integrated channel systems is not smooth. The indentations, irregularities and bifurcation inside and at the exits of the channel systems are weak points, where fresh patient material (blood and tissue) remains. Biofilm-formation on the surface is the matrix for microbial growth. Endoscopists must be aware of this risk. The use of 10.000 pixel optics to check the channel system and to control the surface with the microscope should be a requirement in daily practice.

The microbiological analysis alone is not sufficient. The combination of micro-endoscopy with a specified microbiological analysis or better with new techniques based on ATP monitoring or polymerase chain reaction may be the first step towards an improved control of the infection risk. The patients must be informed about these facts as well as the insurance companies in order to calculate the risk of endoscopy. The routine endoscopy with biopsy is the most common procedure and can be performed perfectly with a disposable system. Disposable tube systems connectable to a solid endoscope (without integrated channels) have to be available in order to avoid the risk. We want to ask the responsible companies in this field to collaborate. Endoscopy is an important tool and disposable tube systems at this moment are without any doubt the only safe way.

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From June 27th to 30th, 2009 the 1st Meeting of the European Academy of ORL-HNS takes place in Mannheim. On Sunday, 28th, Prof. Ingo F. Herrmann will present the functional pharyngoesophagoscopy - a new technique for diagnostics and analyzing deglutition. It’s a method of transnasal endoscopy of the upper digestive tract without sedation with the disposable-endoscope-system. On Tuesday, 30th Prof. Herrmann will be part of the discussion on "Current management of swallowing disorders".

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From March 19th to 21st, 2009 the 39th Congress of the German Society of Endoscopy takes place in Munich. With his team Prof. Ingo F. Herrmann will present the method of transnasal endoscopy of the upper digestive tract without sedation with the disposable-endoscope-system.

The team:

Ingo F. Herrmann, Sara Arce Recio, Bruno Matteja, Franco Bresso, Dirk Domagk, Michael Strahl (Rom, Turin, Münster, Düsseldorf)

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Die ersten Prototypen aus flexiblem Plastik liegen vor, die Kleinserie funktioniert. Die erste Testreihe der Einweg-Kanalsystemen läuft, die Ergebnisse werden für die Hersteller des Einweg-Kanalsystems laufend auf www.disposable-endoscope-system.org dokumentiert - mit Endoskop, Mikroskop, Film und Fotos. Das Ziel des Projekts: Patientinnen und Patienten profitieren so schnell wie möglich vom Nutzen der Einweg-Endoskopie. 

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