Coroner calls for clearer colonoscopy guidance in elderly after 84-year-old's death

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By Daniel Pye

A coroner has called for clearer clinical guidance on performing colonoscopies in patients aged over 80, following the death of an elderly woman who suffered fatal complications from the procedure.

Vivian Joan Tuddenham Nolan suffered a colonic perforation during the colonoscopy on 31 March this year and subsequently deteriorated, dying on 10 May.