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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

It's on or kind of been talked about, described on kind of more national platform organizations that are patient-facing. And so... again, patients are seeking it out.

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

It's on or kind of been talked about, described on kind of more national platform organizations that are patient-facing. And so... again, patients are seeking it out.

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

So I think these companies are getting savvy that they know that it's going to be a used technology and they're going to fit a need where, again, groups might not want to be buying it outright, but they'll use it just like they do these high-priced lasers.

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

So I think these companies are getting savvy that they know that it's going to be a used technology and they're going to fit a need where, again, groups might not want to be buying it outright, but they'll use it just like they do these high-priced lasers.

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

So I think these companies are getting savvy that they know that it's going to be a used technology and they're going to fit a need where, again, groups might not want to be buying it outright, but they'll use it just like they do these high-priced lasers.

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

Then you can leave that catheter clamped. No problem. Just like you do for, you know, our intervesical therapy patients who can't hold their bladder. You can always, you know, leave that catheter in, balloon, you know, balloon up. catheter clamped or a plug and it works just well.

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

Then you can leave that catheter clamped. No problem. Just like you do for, you know, our intervesical therapy patients who can't hold their bladder. You can always, you know, leave that catheter in, balloon, you know, balloon up. catheter clamped or a plug and it works just well.

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

Then you can leave that catheter clamped. No problem. Just like you do for, you know, our intervesical therapy patients who can't hold their bladder. You can always, you know, leave that catheter in, balloon, you know, balloon up. catheter clamped or a plug and it works just well.

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

So that really is a very important question to have your pre-op nurses ask because certainly you don't want to, again, use this drug, put it in, and then the poor patient has to go to the bathroom the next 15 minutes.

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

So that really is a very important question to have your pre-op nurses ask because certainly you don't want to, again, use this drug, put it in, and then the poor patient has to go to the bathroom the next 15 minutes.

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

So that really is a very important question to have your pre-op nurses ask because certainly you don't want to, again, use this drug, put it in, and then the poor patient has to go to the bathroom the next 15 minutes.

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

Yeah, no, good question. No, there's not. And I think an important point to make that these pivotal studies revealed is that there really wasn't a difference in side effects that patients had who had undergone cyst view installation, blue light illumination. compared to those patients who just underwent the white light TRBT.

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

Yeah, no, good question. No, there's not. And I think an important point to make that these pivotal studies revealed is that there really wasn't a difference in side effects that patients had who had undergone cyst view installation, blue light illumination. compared to those patients who just underwent the white light TRBT.

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

Yeah, no, good question. No, there's not. And I think an important point to make that these pivotal studies revealed is that there really wasn't a difference in side effects that patients had who had undergone cyst view installation, blue light illumination. compared to those patients who just underwent the white light TRBT.

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

And another important tidbit to know is, too, that you can certainly still use, I have done it, post-op gemcitabine for patients who you feel that that is still indicated on. You can perform retrograde pylograms. So all that stuff you can still do, really. You can carry out your normal, again, interoperative workflow for that patient as it's dictated by their situation.

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

And another important tidbit to know is, too, that you can certainly still use, I have done it, post-op gemcitabine for patients who you feel that that is still indicated on. You can perform retrograde pylograms. So all that stuff you can still do, really. You can carry out your normal, again, interoperative workflow for that patient as it's dictated by their situation.

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

And another important tidbit to know is, too, that you can certainly still use, I have done it, post-op gemcitabine for patients who you feel that that is still indicated on. You can perform retrograde pylograms. So all that stuff you can still do, really. You can carry out your normal, again, interoperative workflow for that patient as it's dictated by their situation.

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

Another important point is if you're doing this after you've done intervesical induction therapy in a patient, you do want to wait about that six-week kind of time point as shortening it up, certainly taking them back too soon after intervesical therapy and using blue light. That's where you probably can see more false positives happen.

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

Another important point is if you're doing this after you've done intervesical induction therapy in a patient, you do want to wait about that six-week kind of time point as shortening it up, certainly taking them back too soon after intervesical therapy and using blue light. That's where you probably can see more false positives happen.

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

Another important point is if you're doing this after you've done intervesical induction therapy in a patient, you do want to wait about that six-week kind of time point as shortening it up, certainly taking them back too soon after intervesical therapy and using blue light. That's where you probably can see more false positives happen.