Background The American Society of Anesthesiologists'(ASA) physical status classification
has been used for over 50 years by anesthesiologists and surgeons as a predictor of peri …

BACKGROUND: The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status
classification is a measurement of comorbidity and a predictor of perioperative morbidity and …

Background: The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grade has been used for
over 50 years as a predictor of risk for perioperative morbidity and mortality. This measure …

Patients and practitioners expect that their endoscopy procedures will go smoothly and
according to plan. There are several reasons why they may be disappointed. The procedure …

Background Uniform evaluation of adverse events (AEs) is essential to assess the safety of
procedures and enable comparisons of their performance. We propose a novel classification …

Methods: We evaluated all patients≥ 18 year old undergoing screening and diagnostic
outpatient colonoscopy and upper GI endoscopy at the Banner University Medical Center …

METHODS A comprehensive PubMed search to June 1, 2010, yielded more than 2000
articles by using the following criteria: EGD/endoscopy, complications (n 256); colonoscopy …

Methods This study was approved by the Mayo Clinic Institutional Review Board (Rochester,
MN). We performed a prospective study to compare 2 mechanisms for identifying the …

In this issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Betzel and colleagues 1 from Rijnstate Hospital,
Arnhem, the Netherlands present their safety experience with the endoscopically placed …

I read with great interest the important article by Cotton et al 1 on developing a lexicon for
reporting endoscopic adverse events (AEs). Such a lexicon is highly important for …