Tracey Hood, RN, administrator for Ohio Valley Ambulatory Surgery Center and Mid Ohio Valley Medical Center in Belpre, offers three ways her ASCs keep GI a profitable and efficient specialty.
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Researchers at the Syracuse (N.Y.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center found that the postpolypectomy bleeding rate is significantly higher in patients on uninterrupted clopidogrel therapy with concomitant aspirin/NSAIDs, but that the risk is small and the outcome is favorable, according to…
Today, May 21, is the last day for gastroenterologists and other specialists to share their thoughts on what they have done to address the pending 21.3 percent pay cut to the physician fee schedule proposed by the Centers for Medicare…
Christopher Joyce, MD, and Brian Lahmann, MD, of Joliet, Ill., performed their 1,000th gastric band surgery this month at Silver Cross Hospital, placing them among the top 1 percent of surgeons performing this procedure, according to a report in The…
The American College of Gastroenterology has announced its support of World IBD Day and World Digestive Health Day, global awareness efforts that are bringing physician and patient groups together to raise awareness for inflammatory bowel disease by making the latest…
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Loyola University surgeon P. Marco Fisichella, MD, is performing laparoscopic hernia surgery at the Maywood, Ill.-based facility, which has helped patients recover quicker and with less pain than traditional methods, according to a Loyola news release.
A new study from the Carolinas Laparoscopic and Advanced Surgery Program at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., found that performance of advanced laparoscopic procedures in a minimally invasive surgery program is safe, regardless of whether the surgery is performed…
A team of researchers at Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases in Japan found that using a flushknife, an endoscopic device with a water jet function, was superior to a flexknife, an electrosurgical endo-knife without a water-jet function,…
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., are testing the next generation of "virtual biopsy" colonoscopy probes and are determining if it might soon be possible to use such a device to determine whether a colon polyp is benign…
Several studies presented at Digestive Disease Week examined the adherence to colorectal cancer screening, including colonoscopy and fecal occult blood testing, by ethnicity and recommended screening strategy, according to a DDW news release.