Multisociety Sedation Curriculum for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Editorial: Time to Put Managing Endoscopic Complications Into the Curriculum

“…Our national societies produce valuable guidelines that touch on risk management issues, and John Allen's Practice Management columns provide helpful advice. Th ere have also been a number of liability topics, specifi cally written by gastro enterologists who also were attorneys, earlier by Plumeri ( 4,5 ), and more recently by my colleague Richard Moses and the senior author of this editorial (6)(7)(8)(9)(10). However, one can argue that a comprehensive study and best practice approach to both adverse event management and medical legal issues have remained elusive.…”

Education and training for nonanesthesia providers performing deep sedation

“…Perhaps closest to this goal is the ASA Safe Sedation TrainingDeep (Available at https://www.asahq.org/education/ online-learning/safe-sedation-training-deep) programme that includes online didactic modules, mentored practice and simulation experience as part of the programme requirements [32]. However, other programmes include those offered by the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology and the Multisociety Sedation Curriculum for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy [33].…”

Ensuring Patient Safety and Optimizing Efficiency During Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

“…As a result, ASGE and other endorsing organizations accepted the Guidelines for Safety in the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit 13 for publication to validate accepted standards of practice that diverge from those required in the OR environment. Published in January 2014, this new guideline supplements existing ASGE guidelines for GI endoscopy as follows: ”Multisociety guideline on reprocessing flexible gastrointestinal endoscopes.” 14 The ASGE published this guideline on reprocessing of flexible GI endoscopes in 2003 and updated it in 2011, and it is endorsed by 10 professional organizations, including AORN and The Joint Commission. ”Infection control during GI endoscopy.” 15 The ASGE published this guideline in 2008, and it included authors from ASGE, the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), and the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (SGNA). ”Minimum staffing requirements for the performance of GI endoscopy.” 16 This guideline was published by the ASGE Standards of Practice Committee in 2010. ”Multisociety sedation curriculum for gastrointestinal endoscopy.” 17 The document was published jointly in 2012 by five organizations, including ASGE and SGNA.…”

“…”Multisociety sedation curriculum for gastrointestinal endoscopy.” 17 The document was published jointly in 2012 by five organizations, including ASGE and SGNA.…”