Anesthesia-less endoscopies
- Orlando (Fla.) Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children added the EvoEndo single-use endoscopy system to perform anesthesia-free endoscopies for pediatric patients over the age of 5. The hospital is one of 25 hospitals in the country that offer the procedure.
- Pediatric gastroenterologist Matthew Ryan, MD, became the first physician to complete more than 100 transnasal endoscopies of the upper GI tract using EvoEndo’s single-use endoscopy system.
Endoscopy center news
- The District of Columbia State Health Planning and Development Agency received a certificate of need application for an ASC from the District Endoscopy Center.
- A Midland, Mich.-based building housing the Great Lakes Bay Surgery & Endoscopy Center sold for $9.8 million.
A new first
- The endoscopy team at UC Davis Health in Sacramento completed the world’s first endoscopic, ultrasound-guided core biopsy of a pancreatic tumor with a new device.
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