John Ortolani, MD, a fifth-year general surgery resident at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute in Roanoke, and colleagues analyzed 135 screening and diagnostic colonoscopies. Second- and third-year surgery residents performed the colonoscopies under surgical endoscopists’ direct supervision. Researchers collected data on bowel preparation quality, cecal intubation rate and ADR.
Here are five points:
1. The researchers found bowel preparation was adequate in 90 percent of cases.
2. The residents reached the cecum in 95 percent of cases.
3. The overall polyp detection rate was 39 percent.
4. The residents’ ADR was 38 percent in men and 26 percent in women, with a mean overall of 32 percent.
5. No patients were readmitted for bleeding complications.
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