TY - JOUR
T1 - NOTES and other emerging trends in gastrointestinal endoscopy and surgery
T2 - The change that we need and the change that is real
AU - Jay Pasricha, Pankaj
AU - Krummel, Thomas M.
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - In this inaugural year of a historic presidency, gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons may well want to turn their attention to more immediate transformative events that have the potential to revolutionize their own practice in the near future. The most visible and, perhaps, controversial of these is natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), but other equally important changes are emerging as investigators around the globe vie with one another in the demonstration of increasingly audacious procedures. As is to be expected, we are also already seeing a backlash from more conservative scholars attempting to temper what they believe to be the surgical equivalent of irrational exuberance. However, by far the most common attitude among gastroenterologists toward these changes is one of indifference. In this piece, we discuss the circumstances that led to the development of NOTES and other innovative procedures, the peril that lies in ignoring them, and the true promise that they hold for our specialties.
AB - In this inaugural year of a historic presidency, gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons may well want to turn their attention to more immediate transformative events that have the potential to revolutionize their own practice in the near future. The most visible and, perhaps, controversial of these is natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), but other equally important changes are emerging as investigators around the globe vie with one another in the demonstration of increasingly audacious procedures. As is to be expected, we are also already seeing a backlash from more conservative scholars attempting to temper what they believe to be the surgical equivalent of irrational exuberance. However, by far the most common attitude among gastroenterologists toward these changes is one of indifference. In this piece, we discuss the circumstances that led to the development of NOTES and other innovative procedures, the peril that lies in ignoring them, and the true promise that they hold for our specialties.
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U2 - 10.1038/ajg.2009.150
DO - 10.1038/ajg.2009.150
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 19806084
AN - SCOPUS:70350513704
SN - 0002-9270
VL - 104
SP - 2384
EP - 2386
JO - American Journal of Gastroenterology
JF - American Journal of Gastroenterology
IS - 10
ER -