Designing single-use endoscopes: Smaller, cleaner, cheap enough?

Endoscopes are essential visualisation tools in modern medicine. Due
to cleanliness concerns with flexible devices, single-use endoscopes are
beginning to play an increasing role in this space.

Endoscopes are essential visualisation tools in modern
medicine. Due to cleanliness concerns with flexible
devices, single-use endoscopes are beginning to play an
increasing role in this space. However, several
hurdles to further market penetration remain, such
as product cost and wastage. Furthermore, there
is an increasing push in endoscope design towards
miniaturisation as a means to improve ease of use
and reduce patient trauma following interventional
procedures and surgery which requires cost/size/
performance tradeoffs to be considered.