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Colonoscopy

Research in the area of colonoscopy reported from F.W. Leung and colleagues

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, May 23rd, 2008

"Unseclated colonoscopy is not required by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education in the curriculum of GI trainees. We describe our pilot experience with trainee participation in unsedated colonoscopy," investigators in the United States report.

"A retrospective review of a performance improvement program to provide access to colonoscopy. A Veteran's Affair ambulatory care facility that discontinued sedated colonoscopy because of a nursing shortage. A total of 145 of 483 patients who chose unsedated colonoscopy after both sedated and unsedated options were discussed. GI fellows performed unsedated colonoscopy under the supervision of the attending...

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