While endoscopes give doctors a window into the human body, the view is usually less than crystal clear. Blood and other bodily fluids are sticky and muck up the viewing window on endoscope tips, requiring regular pauses during procedures to clean the lens end.
This eats up expensive time and can be detrimental to the natural flow of a procedure, not to mention the associated cost of having the OR staff wait to clean the scope every time it gets fouled. At Harvard’s Wyss Institute, researchers have developed a new coating for endoscopes that keeps them a lot clearer while working inside the body.
