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High-Volume GI Centers Are Humming
Efforts to keep your GI center running on all cylinders should focus on one all-encompassing goal: optimizing efficiencies. That’s according to gastroenterologist...
Build Intentionally With Innovation in Mind
How does the structure and design of a healthcare facility impact the performance of the surgeon and the outcome of the surgery?...
Set Up Your GI Center for Success
People who love the outdoors and value affordable living are flocking to Boise, Idaho, making it one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. This incredible population...
Thinking of Buying: Colonoscopes
Colonoscopes are the workhorses of endoscopy centers. When evaluating these products, focus on their reliability, image quality and features that improve visualization and navigation for the endoscopist. Let’s drill down...
June 3, 2021
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Seeing Is Believing
The better surgeons can see anatomy during minimally invasive abdominal procedures, the more precise their work will be. Ultra-high-def camera systems, image-enhancement...
How to Handle the Colonoscopy Surge
This is a hectic time to run a GI center, isn't it? As you keep pace with newly scheduled colonoscopies and work through a backlog of postponed procedures, know the stakes...
Colon Cancer Doesn't Wait for COVID-19
Getting back up and running and returning to a sense of normalcy are phrases that have been thrown around since COVID-19 hit. As elective procedures such as colonoscopies began to ramp back up after last year's nationwide...
Bringing Colonoscopies Back Up to Speed
The Oregon Clinic Gastroenterology East at Gateway in Portland ?shut down in March for nearly two months when the pandemic's initial wave hit the west coast hard....
Up to Speed on Ultrathin Endoscopes
Ultrathin endoscopes have proven to be invaluable instruments for examining the upper GI tract of patients with challenging anatomy, even if that wasn't their intended...
COVID's Impact on Colonoscopies
When the American Cancer Society recommended colonoscopy screenings should start at age 45 instead of age 50 last May, you might have wondered how you were going to...
Boost Your Endoscope Efficiency
Boost Your Endoscope Efficiency;Small improvements in colonoscopy screenings will help keep patients moving.
High-tech Options In Endoscope Reprocessing
The heavy use and repeated high-level disinfection flexible endoscopes endure can be problematic. A pinhole in an insertion tube, a drop of moisture collection...
Boost Your Adenoma Detection Rate
Boost Your Adenoma Detection Rate; ADR is the gold standard in colonoscopy quality. Do you measure up?
3 Essential Steps in Endoscope Care
The long, narrow lumens of flexible endoscopes can make reprocessing the delicate instruments feel like an exercise in futility. But despite the inherent challenges...
Take Better Care of Your Endoscopes
Healthcare facilities continue to face challenges in performing safe and effective endoscope reprocessing. Is it any wonder? The complex design of endoscopes makes...
How to Keep Your Endoscope Channels Dry
You can manually clean an endoscope until it shines and examine every millimeter of its insertion tube for pinhole leaks, but none of that matters if fluid remains in the scope's...
On the Road with Dirty Scopes
Cleaning dirty endoscopes is a high priority, but the equally critical process of getting dirty scopes safely to the cleaning area — and keeping them clean on the way back...
Boost Your Adenoma Detection Rates
Boost Your Adenoma Detection Rates; The latest scope upgrades enhance views of the colon to highlight hard-to-spot growths.