Perianal lidocaine may improve comfort and efficiency during unsedated adult colonoscopy
1. Perianal 2% lidocaine gel significantly reduced anal pain and shortened cecal intubation time during unsedated colonoscopy in adults aged ...
Tag: endoscopy
Wide-awake local anesthesia without a tourniquet may achieve similar anesthetic success to ultrasound-guided axillary brachial plexus block
1. For outpatient endoscopic carpal tunnel release, wide-awake local anesthesia without a tourniquet achieves at least the same anesthetic success ...
Fecal calprotectin is a useful marker for defining small bowel endoscopic remission in Crohn’s disease
1. In patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), fecal calprotectin (FC) was a useful biomarker for monitoring small bowel lesions and ...
High flow nasal cannula reduces hypoxia for obese patients undergoing endoscopy
1. The use of high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) in patients with obesity undergoing sedated gastrointestinal endoscopy significantly reduced the ...
Endoscopic semi-blunt dissection technique safe and effective for gastric submucosal tumors
1. Use of the semi-blunt dissection technique with endoscopic resection of gastric submucosal tumours was associated with a smaller maximum ...
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists may impact outcomes of endoscopy
1. The use of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) was not ...
Adenoma detection rate is inversely associated with post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer risk
1. In this prospective cohort study, the adenoma detection rate (ADR) was inversely associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk in ...
Airway impedance may aid diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux and aspiration in children
1. In a small prospective cohort of children undergoing direct laryngoscopy and endoscopy, airway impedance did not correlate with gastroesophageal reflux ...
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MRI offers an alternative to endoscopic assessment of disease activity and severity in ileocolonic Crohn’s disease [Classics Series]
This study summary is an excerpt from the book 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark ...
Significant morbidity among children observed following reintroduction of high-powered magnets into US market
1. This multi-center, retrospective cohort study identified nearly 600 cases of pediatric patients seeking care for high-powered magnet exposure, with about ...
