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Manager's Guide to Surgery's Hottest Trends - April 2015

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A P R I L 2 0 1 5 O U T P A T I E N T S U R G E R Y . N E T 3 1 E ven if your docs are practicing the foundations of a good colonoscopy — ensuring patients have good preps, reaching the end of the colon and performing a careful and thor- Improved optics and mechanical innovations are revolutionizing colonoscopy screenings. Seth A. Gross, MD, FACG, FASGE New York, N.Y. Colon Cancer z THE FUTURE New devices are promising better views, letting doctors catch more hard-to- see polyps, says Seth Gross, MD, FACG, FASGE. ough inspection — missed polyps are still a possibility. The reported polyp miss rate is between 12% and 24% because of blind spots and deep folds in the colon. Fortunately, new technology and devices designed to give your physicians the best views possible let us catch more polyps. Panoramic views When it comes to the lat- est technology, I've found that the newest enhancements fall into 2 areas: improved optics and smoothing mechani- cal innovations. The approaches differ, but they all attempt to tackle the same goal — better visualization of the entire colon surface. • Optics upgrades. One of the ways manufacturers

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