• if you schedule a colonoscopy every half hour and an endoscopy
every 15 or 20 minutes, and
• if you stagger the schedule accordingly — first an EGD, then 2
colonoscopies, then an EGD.
Those are big ifs. Here's one more: If you schedule 4 EGDs in a row,
you'll need a 4
th
upper in order to avoid delays. To give you an exam-
ple, let's say the EGD scope you use for the first case of the day at 7
a.m. gets to decontamination at 7:25 a.m. That scope won't be free to
use again until 8:10 a.m. If you schedule an EGD for 8 a.m., you'll need
a second upper scope. But if you schedule colonoscopies for 7:30 a.m.
and 8 a.m., and a EGD for 8:30 a.m., you can use the same upper
scope that you used on your first case.
A quick word on what scopes you should buy. I've never worked
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