Abstract Aim Flexible Nasoendoscope (FNE) is an essential device routinely used to assess patients who present acutely the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department with signs symptoms of ENT pathologies that may compromise patient’s airway. It imperative scope decontaminated before after each use. The “Tristel Trio Wipe” decontamination methodology employed by most departments in UK process utilis...

A new technique for injecting sclerosant into oesophageal varices uses a flexible gastroscope. Once the gastroscope has been inserted a flexible tube with a window cut into its distal end is pushed down over the gastroscope until a varix protrudes through the window. The varix can then be injected with a needle passed down the biopsy channel of the gastroscope. Once the varices have all been in...