
2. Olympus: H-SteriScope single-use bronchoscopes
Olympus launched its product line of five H-SteriScope single-use bronchoscopes.
The single-use endoscopes are for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. They resulted from a collaboration between Olympus subsidiary Veran Medical Technologies and Hunan Vathin Medical Instrument.
H-SteriScope single-use bronchoscopes are designed for tissue biopsy, foreign body retrieval and other advanced procedures to help clinicians target, diagnose and treat patients. Its models have outer diameters ranging from 2.2 mm to 6.2 mm with a working channel range of 1.2 mm to 3.2 mm. Each bronchoscope has a rotary function that allows insertion tube rotation up to 90º left and right and tip angulation range of 210º up and down.
Read more about the single-use bronchoscope launch here.