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. 2018 Aug 30;3(2):189–195. doi: 10.1007/s41669-018-0091-2

Table 1.

Details of the cost and usage of reusable and single-use bronchoscopes retrieved from the literature

Aïssou et al. [16] Bertrand et al. [17] Debraine [18] Gupta and Wang [19] Liu et al. [20] McCahon and Whynes [21] Perbet et al. [11] Sorli et al. [22] Tvede et al. [13] Videau et al. [23] Wojcik et al. [24] Mean (SD) Median (IQR)
BAL PDT
Reusable bronchoscope
 Country FR FR FR US US UK FR FR DK FR FR
 Setting OR OR NA OR OR/ICU OR/ICU ICU NA OR/ICU NA NA
 No. of scopes available 2 4 6 6 9 14 2 2 9 12 2 8 7 6
 No. of procedures per year 45 53 289 166 1132 141 76 15 1712 360 60 427 373 (522) 154 (116–193)
 Expected lifetime per scope (years) 10 5 2 15 5 7 5 5 4 10 5 NA 8 6
 Repair rate 1:90 NA NA 1:55 1:81 1:18 NA NA NA NA NA NA 1:61 1:68
 Acquisition cost ($US) 74 194 33 23 15 168 93 558 258 79 75 57 135 (152) 77 (58–96)
 Reprocessing cost ($US) 131 442 246 52 20 62 52 53 118 57 64 182 123 (128) 63 (47–79)
Single-use bronchoscope
 Total cost per use (2016 $US) 222 322 257 208 NA 261 220 222 229 284 269 249 (36) 243 (182–304)

BAL bronchoalveolar lavage, DK Denmark, FR France, ICU intensive care unit, NA not available, OR operating room, PDT percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy, UK United Kingdom, US United States