TY - CHAP AU - Marco Bustamante ED - Paul Miskovitz Y1 - 2011-08-29 PY - 2011 T1 - Quality of Screening Colonoscopy: Learning Technical Skills and Evaluating Competence N2 - To publish a book on colonoscopy suitable for an international medical audience, drawing upon the expertise and talents of many outstanding world-wide clinicians, is a daunting task. New developments in videocolonoscope instruments, procedural technique, patient selection and preparation, and moderate sedation and monitoring are being made and reported daily in both the medical and the lay press. Just as over the last several decades colonoscopy has largely supplanted the use of barium enema x-ray study of the colon, new developments in gastrointestinal imaging such as computerized tomographic colonography and video transmitted capsule study of the colonic lumen and new discoveries in cellular and molecular biology that may facilitate the early detection of colon cancer, colon polyps and other gastrointestinal pathology threaten to relegate the role of screening colonoscopy to the side lines of medical practice. This book draws on the talents of renowned physicians who convey a sense of the history, the present state-of-the art and ongoing confronting issues, and the predicted future of this discipline. BT - Colonoscopy SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/21079 DO - 10.5772/21079 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -