Sedation & Patient Comfort

What You'll Learn

Sedation choices shape almost every endoscopy you do — but the evidence on what's actually best for the patient is often missing from everyday practice. This focused 90-minute webinar brings together three leading voices on quality and safety in endoscopic sedation to tackle the questions that matter most.

From Dr Roland Valori's evidence-based case for comfortable colonoscopy with reduced sedation, to Dr Manmeet Matharoo's human-factors view of why sedation incidents happen and how to prevent them, to Dr Catherine Vandewaeter's anaesthetist's perspective from behind the monitor, this session will give you concrete, take-home changes for tomorrow's list.

Key Topics

• Comfortable colonoscopy with less sedation — What the evidence really shows about pain, sedation depth, and patient experience
• The case for reducing sedation — Recovery, throughput, day-case efficiency, and patient-reported outcomes
• Where sedation errors really happen — Pre-procedure assessment, intra-procedure monitoring, and the recovery period
• Human factors in sedation safety — Team design, checklists, and the system around the syringe
• The anaesthetist's view from behind the monitor — Who really needs intubation, GLP-1 receptor agonists and sedation, and what endoscopy teams should ask their anaesthetic colleagues
• Translating evidence into practice — What to change on Monday morning

Expert Faculty

Dr Roland Valori

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Former National Clinical Director for Endoscopy in England (2003–2013) and National Clinical Advisor to the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Architect of the UK Global Rating Scale and a leading voice on quality and safety in colonoscopy. Dr Valori's work on improving outcomes of colorectal cancer through better colonoscopy quality has shaped UK and European endoscopy standards for two decades.

Dr Manmeet Matharoo

St Mark's Hospital, London / Imperial College London

Consultant Gastroenterologist at the National Bowel Hospital and Governance & Endoscopy Training Lead at St Mark's. PhD in improving safety and quality in GI endoscopy patient pathways. Dr Matharoo's research on sedation safety, never events, and human factors in endoscopy makes her one of the foremost voices on procedural sedation safety. Associate Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology; ESGE Governing Board member.

Dr Catherine Vandewaeter

Anaesthesiology, AZ Delta — Roeselare, Belgium

Anaesthetist at AZ Delta (Roeselare–Menen–Torhout), trained in anaesthesia at KU Leuven with clinical placements at UZ Gasthuisberg and AZ Sint-Jan Brugge. Dr Vandewaeter brings the anaesthetist's perspective to procedural sedation in endoscopy — what really happens behind the monitor, where safety margins are won or lost, and how anaesthesia and endoscopy teams can work together to protect every patient.

Moderators

Dr David Tate (Course Director, GIEQs) and Dr John Anderson (Director, Gloucestershire Endoscopy Training Centre).

Who Should Attend?

• Gastroenterologists wanting practical, evidence-based change to their sedation practice
• Colonoscopists working towards comfortable, low-sedation lists
• Endoscopy nurses and ODPs involved in sedation, recovery, and monitoring
• Anaesthetists working with endoscopy services
• Endoscopy unit leads responsible for sedation policies, governance, and training
• GI trainees building safe sedation habits early

Format

Three focused lectures — two 20-minute talks from Dr Valori and Dr Matharoo, and a 15-minute anaesthetist's view from Dr Vandewaeter — with moderated discussion after each block, including a joint Matharoo + Vandewaeter Q&A on sedation safety. The interactive format ensures you leave with answers to the questions that matter most for your practice.

Registration

Virtual Access

• Live streaming of all three lectures and discussions
• Interactive Q&A with faculty
• Access to catch-up recording after the event

Free for GIEQs Pro members — simply login at course time to watch live.