Members of the medical community, certain medical device manufacturers and government regulatory agencies are allowing patients to spend an extra $15 billion dollars a year by allowing unnecessary, ...

The American College of Physicians Clinical Guidelines Committee has released a new evidence-based clinical policy paper revising the guidelines for upper endoscopy use in most patients. During the ...

Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;3(10):534-535. When considering the value of early endoscopy in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, we must first examine the overall value of endoscopy in this ...

Administering a lidocaine lollipop as a single-agent anesthetic to patients undergoing an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy procedure eliminated the need for sedation in the majority of patients. Upper ...

What Are the Various Types of Procedures? An upper endoscopy is an examination of the upper gut. It's often referred to as an endoscopy. However, this is only one of many endoscopy types performed by ...

Survival rates for upper gastrointestinal cancers are poor and oesophageal cancer incidence is increasing. Upper gastrointestinal cancer is also often missed during examinations; a predicament that ...

Use upper endoscopy wisely Inappropriate endoscopy use generates unnecessary costs and exposes patients to harms without improving outcomes. Although upper endoscopy is commonly used in the diagnosis ...

Despite advances in our knowledge of celiac disease, the most current and authoritative recommendations conclude that diagnosis requires at least four biopsy specimens to be taken from the duodenal ...

Here are the 2010 Medicare payment rates for six upper GI procedures in the ASC setting. 1. Upper GI endoscopy including esophagus, stomach and either duodenum and/or jejunum as appropriate; with ...