Unsedated small-caliber upper endoscopy: An emerging diagnostic and therapeutic technology

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-39

  Kim, Charles Y ^a,b   O'Rourke, Robert W ^a   Chang, Eugene Y ^a,b   Jobe, Blair A ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic upper endoscopy; Small caliber endoscopy; Transnasal evaluation

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CATHETER; CLINICAL STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ENDOSCOPE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS PH; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEEDING APPARATUS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORBIDITY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCREENING TEST; SEDATION; STOMACH TUBE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

CATHETERIZATION; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; NOSE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33744798474     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155335060601300106     Document Type: Article

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