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Secrets to Speedier Room Turnover - November 2013 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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OSE_1311_part2_Layout 1 11/6/13 9:39 AM Page 76 E N D O S C O P Y 5 Colonoscopy Game-Changers EXPANDED SCOPE Physicians want tools that help them perform quality screenings during every exam. Several advances provide physicians with better views of more areas of the colon. P rocedure times and cecum intubations are important to track, but polyp detection rate is the No. 1 quality indicator of colonoscopy. "Deaths from colorectal cancer simply shouldn't happen, because colon cancer is a preventable disease," says Stephen Lloyd, MD, PhD, medical director of the South Carolina Medical Endoscopy Center in Columbia. Some exciting new innovations have hit the market in recent years to give physicians better views of more areas of the colon so they can better identify pre-cancerous growths and save more lives. 1 7 6 HD and NBI Research published by Anna M. Buchner, MD, PhD, in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | N O V E M B E R 2013

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