EndoNurse Magazine

Colonoscopy

Several diseases of the digestive tract are curable if caught early enough, and colonoscopy is a key part of that intervention process. Colonoscopy allows endoscopy staff to look at the rectum and colon via a thin, flexible tube with a small camera attached that shows polyps, ulcers, tumors, inflammation and bleeding. Tissue samples can be biopsied during this process, and polyps can be removed.

Canadian Gastro Group Responds to Colonoscopy Scare

OAKVILLE, Ontario—In response to recent news that a Quebec physician was found to have conducted incomplete colonoscopies on close to 700 patients, the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology today released a statement stressing the importance and general high quality of ...More
September 24, 2012
Posted in News, Industry Issues
Endo Team Gives Free Colonoscopies

When our facility, Advanced Gastroenterology, opened two years ago, it was a pretty grim time to open a business. The unemployment rate in our section of Washington State (the Vancouver area) was in the double digits, and still is. What a terrible time to take an economic ...More
September 14, 2012
Posted in Articles, Industry Issues
A HydroPrep Case Study: South Lake Tahoe

At Barton Memorial Hospital (BMH), in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., patients undergoing colonoscopy now have a new prep option. The HydroPrep is a combination of low-volume oral prep, clear liquids the day before colonoscopy, plus colon hydrotherapy the morning of the ...More
August 1, 2012
Posted in Articles, Procedures
Swiss Study: Colonoscopy with Polypectomy Reduces Cancer

OAK BROOK, Ill.—A study from researchers in Switzerland found that colonoscopy with polypectomy significantly reduces colorectal cancer incidence and colorectal cancer-related death in the general population. ...More
July 25, 2012
Posted in News
FDA Clears Colonic Controlled-Release Stent

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this month granted Cook Medical 510(k) clearance for the Evolution Colonic Controlled-Release Stent. ...More
July 10, 2012
Posted in News
Can Language Processing Tool Measure Colonoscopy Quality?

OAK BROOK, Ill.—A new study shows that natural language processing programs can “read" dictated reports and provide information to allow measurement of colonoscopy quality in an inexpensive, automated and efficient manner. ...More
June 22, 2012
Posted in News
Newspaper Asks: Are Vegas Colonoscopies Safe?

An excellent article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week revisited the Las Vegas scandal in which a network of endoscopy centers was responsible for a hepatitis outbreak in 2008. ...More
June 20, 2012
Posted in Blog
Can Colonoscopy and Sigmoidoscopy Predict Parkinson’s?

CHICAGO—Two studies by neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center suggest that in the future, colonic tissue obtained during either colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy may be used to predict who will develop Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative ...More
May 16, 2012
Posted in News
Survey: Pressure to Do Fast Colonoscopies Hurts Quality

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that 92 percent of more than 1,000 gastroenterologists responding to a survey believed that pressures to increase the volume of colonoscopies adversely impacted how they performed their procedures, ...More
March 14, 2012
Posted in News
Katie Couric and Others Urge Public to Schedule a Colonoscopy

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Katie Couric and others recently announced the "Make That Call" campaign to promote colon cancer screening for National Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Couric was joined by New York-Presbyterian and its Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health, ...More
March 8, 2012
Posted in News