VIDEO
The Financial Case for Single-Use Endoscopy
Risks Between Reusable vs. Disposable Flexible Endoscopes: A Clinical Risk Management Perspective
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at 1pm ET
This webinar will discuss evidence-based strategies to reduce patient harm and risk in inpatient and outpatient settings where flexible endoscopy is performed.
Women In Endoscopy: Life Beyond Lockdown and Ergonomics in Endoscopy
This joint panel discussion features female leaders in gastroenterology who face these challenges head on every day.

Public Health
The matching of medical students with residency programs has been around for years, but Instagram has only recently gotten into the game. Here’s how otolaryngology residency programs are making use of social media to attract the best and brightest to their schools.

Endoscopy Insights Podcast
Dr. Matthew Katz is affiliated with NYU Langone Health and is a clinical assistant professor in the urology department at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He brings a unique perspective to starting a urology practice today, as we learned at AUA 2022.

Prevention Strategies
“If it looks dirty, it’s definitely dirty. If it looks clean, it might still be dirty” — a recent webinar explains this critical insight and more regarding recently mandated cleaning verification tests for high-risk endoscopes.

Public Health
That common misclassification is associated with higher respiratory symptom burden, healthcare usage and lower physical performance.

Patient Safety
New research shows that swallowing therapy, including use of fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES), helps patients with advanced oral cancer regain their ability to eat.

Public Health
Surgical specialties like urology lack ethnic and gender diversity. The solution, experts say, is to introduce students to urology education at an early age, then follow up with targeted learning and mentorship programs to bridge the diversity gap.

Emerging Technologies
A study dives into that question and many more, conceding that coming up with an answer is “complex and nuanced.” But single-use duodenoscopes are one possible solution — if they can answer important performance questions.

Emerging Technologies
Robotics took center stage at this year’s American Urology Association (AUA) annual meeting, with panels on second-generation robotic ureteroscopes, emerging robotic surgical systems, and a battle of the bots.

Patient Safety
Job descriptions for IPs are starting to include oversight of the endoscope disinfecting process and that could be a big step toward improved patient and clinician safety.
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