Seventeen gastrointestinal diagnostic codes, spanning esophageal motility studies, capsule endoscopies and breath tests, have been added to the ASC-covered services list, a move that could expand ...

Bunny Twiford, RN, president of Twiford Consulting in Warminster, Pa., shares six things GI-driven ASCs should benchmark. 1. Length of the procedure vs. scheduling allotments. Ms. Twiford says ASCs ...

Endoscopy has revolutionized the field of gastrointestinal medicine, particularly in the realms of gut and liver research, by enabling minimally invasive diagnostics and therapeutic interventions. As ...

Nicklaus Children's Hospital is the first in South Florida to offer a new sedation-free procedure to evaluate the upper ...

A new study suggests routine gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is not needed for most patients with mucinous ovarian cancer in the perioperative setting due to a lack of statistically significant ...

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A consensus on major and minor key performance indicators (KPIs) was established to improve the quality of upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy and reduce post-endoscopy upper GI cancer. The adoption ...

The national gastroenterology societies have announced they have issued a new document on sedation training for gastrointestinal endoscopy, according to a news release (pdf). The Multisociety Sedation ...

Doctors may perform an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy to diagnose and help treat stomach ulcers. During the procedure, a healthcare professional inserts an endoscope through the mouth and into the ...

Use of GLP-1s or glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide agonists before upper endoscopy significantly increased the risk for residual gastric volume, according to data published in JAMA Internal ...