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