Ambu : The future of endoscopy is single-use

The single most important question in healthcare today is how to improve patient outcomes with the resources available. And as the world population increases and life expectancy expands, the pressure mounts on hospital budgets, workflow efficiency and, ultimately, patient safety.

Flexible endoscopes raise specific problems because they are costly to purchase, reprocess and repair, they are not always available when you need them, and their use risks exposing patients to infections.

We believe that the challenges in flexible endoscopy should be addressed with single-use devices, and for more than a decade we have been harnessing the technology. In 2009, we launched the world's first single-use flexible endoscope: The Ambu® aScope™. Today, the aScope is used for pulmonary endoscopies in the OR and ICU at more than 3,000 hospitals across the globe. Single-use endoscopy has proven its worth in pulmonary endoscopy and the next step is to bring the advantages of single-use to other clinical areas.

Therefore, we now make you a promise: By the year 2020, we will offer sterile single-use scopes within the segments of pulmonary, urology, ENT and GI - including single-use duodenoscopes, gastroscopes and colonoscopes.

There is no doubt in our minds that a new and sterile scope for each and every patient is a great step forward for modern healthcare.

We are dedicated to making this future happen.

Lars Marcher
President & CEO
Ambu

Read more: The Future of Endoscopy starts now (pdf)