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Dr. Suzanne Merrill

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BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

But that white light visualization should not be infringed upon because of that you know, optical imaging agent in there.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

But that white light visualization should not be infringed upon because of that you know, optical imaging agent in there.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

But that white light visualization should not be infringed upon because of that you know, optical imaging agent in there.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

Yeah, no, I think it's really important just to, you know, lose the headache of something which has to be done before, right, you can do surgery on a patient and right before in that pre-op setting. So I think one, you know, for all our listeners, PhotoCure creates a kit, a SysView kit, and really it has everything in there to mix and instill, okay?

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

Yeah, no, I think it's really important just to, you know, lose the headache of something which has to be done before, right, you can do surgery on a patient and right before in that pre-op setting. So I think one, you know, for all our listeners, PhotoCure creates a kit, a SysView kit, and really it has everything in there to mix and instill, okay?

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

Yeah, no, I think it's really important just to, you know, lose the headache of something which has to be done before, right, you can do surgery on a patient and right before in that pre-op setting. So I think one, you know, for all our listeners, PhotoCure creates a kit, a SysView kit, and really it has everything in there to mix and instill, okay?

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

You do have to provide a separate, or we provide a separate catheter and Eurojet, But everything is in that SysView kit to use in terms of mixing up, et cetera. And so ultimately, we have created kind of a pre-op order form for our nurses. And we had a full run through in pre-op, kind of a learning session before we kind of rolled this out. at my hospital that I work at. And that has worked well.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

You do have to provide a separate, or we provide a separate catheter and Eurojet, But everything is in that SysView kit to use in terms of mixing up, et cetera. And so ultimately, we have created kind of a pre-op order form for our nurses. And we had a full run through in pre-op, kind of a learning session before we kind of rolled this out. at my hospital that I work at. And that has worked well.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

You do have to provide a separate, or we provide a separate catheter and Eurojet, But everything is in that SysView kit to use in terms of mixing up, et cetera. And so ultimately, we have created kind of a pre-op order form for our nurses. And we had a full run through in pre-op, kind of a learning session before we kind of rolled this out. at my hospital that I work at. And that has worked well.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

And so ultimately, the orders get sent and the nurses now know what to do. The consent is already signed before that patient walks into pre-op. So the nurses have no reason by which to carry out your orders going forward. And ultimately, you know, one of the first questions they ask the patient is, you know, can you hold your bladder, you know, for 30 minutes to an hour?

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

And so ultimately, the orders get sent and the nurses now know what to do. The consent is already signed before that patient walks into pre-op. So the nurses have no reason by which to carry out your orders going forward. And ultimately, you know, one of the first questions they ask the patient is, you know, can you hold your bladder, you know, for 30 minutes to an hour?

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

And so ultimately, the orders get sent and the nurses now know what to do. The consent is already signed before that patient walks into pre-op. So the nurses have no reason by which to carry out your orders going forward. And ultimately, you know, one of the first questions they ask the patient is, you know, can you hold your bladder, you know, for 30 minutes to an hour?

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

And if they can, then likely we do not leave a catheter in them clamped. We remove it and they hold it. You really want a 60 minute dwell time post installation for the imaging agent to work well. And you don't want to exceed three hours either. And so because there's at least, you know, about 30 minutes of time, you know, to install.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

And if they can, then likely we do not leave a catheter in them clamped. We remove it and they hold it. You really want a 60 minute dwell time post installation for the imaging agent to work well. And you don't want to exceed three hours either. And so because there's at least, you know, about 30 minutes of time, you know, to install.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

And if they can, then likely we do not leave a catheter in them clamped. We remove it and they hold it. You really want a 60 minute dwell time post installation for the imaging agent to work well. And you don't want to exceed three hours either. And so because there's at least, you know, about 30 minutes of time, you know, to install.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

get the patient and put this drug in, if you will, everything like that. And then you got 60 minutes of dwell time. Sometimes this does not work best as the first case. So something to think about, or you at least allocate your patient flow to maybe come in a little bit earlier. So you can start on time.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

get the patient and put this drug in, if you will, everything like that. And then you got 60 minutes of dwell time. Sometimes this does not work best as the first case. So something to think about, or you at least allocate your patient flow to maybe come in a little bit earlier. So you can start on time.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

get the patient and put this drug in, if you will, everything like that. And then you got 60 minutes of dwell time. Sometimes this does not work best as the first case. So something to think about, or you at least allocate your patient flow to maybe come in a little bit earlier. So you can start on time.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

But then actually stacking these cases, I think, works pretty nicely, gets the nurses into a rhythm in the pre-op area. But ultimately, once the patient has dwelled for that amount of time, then they come back to the OR, you put your scope in. The scopes, again, that we use with SysView are stored scopes. OK, that has the blue light capability. So that's really important.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 186 Blue Light Cystoscopy: Improving Bladder Cancer Detection with Dr. Suzanne Merrill

But then actually stacking these cases, I think, works pretty nicely, gets the nurses into a rhythm in the pre-op area. But ultimately, once the patient has dwelled for that amount of time, then they come back to the OR, you put your scope in. The scopes, again, that we use with SysView are stored scopes. OK, that has the blue light capability. So that's really important.