Wale Ajumobi is a gastroenterologist and can be reached at his self-titled site, Wale Ajumobi.
The alarm goes off! Code blue! Code blue! The code blue team rushes to the scene. The patient is unresponsive. There is no pulse. The leader of the code team looks at the monitor and takes charge. The patient is in ventricular fibrillation (cardiac arrest) and would very well flat-line if prompt action is not taken. The leader gives clear instructions: Start chest compression. Fred, you will handle the defibrillator. …
March is colon cancer awareness month. We have made tremendous strides in the fight against cancer especially colon cancer.
Between 1991 and 2011, U.S. cancer death rate decreased by 22 percent (1.5 million lives saved), and colon cancer death rate decreased by almost 50 percent. This decrease coincides with widespread adoption of colorectal cancer screening particularly colonoscopy.
Despite this progress, colon cancer is still the 2nd leading cause of cancer death in …
Colonoscopy is the most effective test for the detection and prevention of colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. An estimated 14 million colonoscopies are performed in the United States every year. About 20 to 40 percent of these colonoscopies have inadequate bowel preparation according to multiple studies.
Inadequate bowel preparation is costly to the patient, the health care system, and society.
In one study, poor …
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