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Determining the best way to sterilize and repair a flexible endoscope’s damage after it’s been used to check an airplane gas tank for leaks is not a problem that most same-day surgery managers encounter. Staff members and physicians understand more about the fragile nature of scopes than they did 15 years ago, when this incident occurred at a hospital-based outpatient surgery program.

Scope repair costs cut by $12,000 in one center