U.S., June 11 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07014033) titled 'Single-use Versus Multiple-use Endoscopes in Gastroenterology' on May 12.
Brief Summary: Gastroenterology is a branch of medicine that looks after people with problems in the gut (including the stomach and bowels) using an endoscope. An endoscope is a thin tube with a light and camera at the end, which is used to look inside bits of the body, for example the stomach, bile ducts (tubes that connect the liver and gallbladder to the bowel) or large bowel. Some have extra bits attached to take samples of tissue to look at under a microscope. These tubes are made mostly of plastic.
Around 1.5 million endoscopies are performed each year ...