Are ENT Endoscopes at Risk for Infecting Patients?

Note the instrument port which is the inner channel In the media, there have been reports of contaminated endoscopes that have been incompletely sterilized causing life-threatening infections in patients. The endoscopes that have been implicated in these unfortunate infections transferred from one patient to another are known as duodenoscopes or EGD scopes. The main concern that patients have are whether similar (non) sterility issues are also found in endoscopes used in the ENT world. T…

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New Movie Trailer for Fauquier ENT YouTube

It has been an amazing experience with how successful our videos have been on YouTube . We now have 60+ different videos of ENT procedures that has been viewed over 247 million times since 2007. We also now have over 12,300 subscribers to our video channel. To celebrate, a movie trailer of sorts has been created to introduce new viewers to the sort of videos they will see and will continue to see from us. Check it out! And... if you haven't yet subscribed to our video channel, please d…

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YouTube Ranks Fauquier ENT as Most Viewed for Medical Videos

I was informed that our practice's  YouTube channel  has been ranked as one of the most viewed channels related to medicine  in the world ! As of Oct 6, 2011, our channel  which contains 52 videos has received 198,064,840 views. We currently average over 500,000 views a day! We far surpass other more "prestigious" medical organizations with a YouTube channel. Mayo Clinic Channel Channel 4,936,943 views University of Maryland Medical Center Channel 2,047,260 view…

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Video Made by Dr. Chang Shown on Animal Planet

On July 17, 2011, Animal Planet aired Swamp Wars "Snake Farm Shootout" where a video made by Dr. Chang was incorporated into the storyline. It was a VERY brief segment of this video clip shown about 30 minutes into the show; specifically, the endoscopic image of the back of the nose. Due to copyright, I can't show the actual video clip. But, here is the video from which the segment was taken.

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