| 1. | A flexible bronchoscope is longer and thinner than a rigid bronchoscope.
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| 2. | A flexible bronchoscope is longer and thinner than a rigid bronchoscope.
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| 3. | Killian used a rigid bronchoscope to remove a pork bone.
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| 4. | From this time until the 1970s, rigid bronchoscopes were used exclusively.
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| 5. | A Japanese, Shigeto Ikeda, invented the flexible bronchoscope in 1966.
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| 6. | Right now, you have to soak a bronchoscope in gluteraldehyde overnight to sterilize it.
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| 7. | The bronchoscopes are made by Olympus America, which recalled some of them last November.
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| 8. | Once the bronchoscope is inserted into the upper airway, the vocal cords are inspected.
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| 9. | No other cases of infections possibly linked to the bronchoscopes have been reported, Olympus said.
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| 10. | The following day, the pulmonologist examined Murphy's windpipe through a fiber-optic bronchoscope.
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