This ASG video tip is sponsored by Braintree, maker of the newly approved Suflav and Sutab. This is an interesting endoscope, an EvoEndo. So this is a sedation-free upper endoscopy. And EvoEndo is designed for pediatric and adult transoral and transnasal endoscopy. So the key here is that it can be potentially done without anesthesia because it has an outer diameter of 3.5 millimeter. So extra slim endoscope, much smaller than even the slimmer endoscopes like the SXP from Olympus and the slim scope from Pentax, which is around 5.3, 5.7 millimeter. This is a 3.5 millimeter outer diameter scope. So extremely thin. So it can be passed through the nose much easily. So for pediatric and adult, it can be passed through the nose or through the mouth and does not require anesthesia. There have been clinical studies already done, and in them they have applied some lidocaine jelly and some lubricant, and they were able to get in pretty easily without anesthesia. It has a two millimeter working channel. So some of the instruments, the pediatric instruments can be passed through for biopsies and for some basic evaluation. So it will be very good for basic diagnostic evaluations and can be done at bedside and other locations without anesthesia. Very interesting. And it has a four way deflection capability as a 120 degree field of view. And as you can see, the controller is also very small setup box. So pretty mobile and can be used for bedside evaluation and other things. So very cool. And this might help us avoid a lot of sedation and procedures that are for simple diagnostic and so on. So it will be interesting to see how this would evolve further, this Evo end out.

sedation-free endoscope

pediatric and adult endoscopies

biopsies

four-way deflection

bedside evaluations