A group of gastroenterologists in Seattle is trying to turn a commercial flop into a clinical advance by tailoring computerized sedation to a system driven by nurses.
Virginia Mason Medical Center was an early adopter of the Sedasys System, a device that provided computer-assisted propofol sedation (CAPS) for patients undergoing colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Despite its advocates, Sedasys gained few users and Johnson & Johnson stopped selling the technology in March