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Unsedated Colonoscopy: Is It Feasible?
Unsedated colonoscopy has been an evolving subject ever since its initial description four decades ago. Failure in unsedated diagnostic cases due to patient pain led to the introduction of sedation. Extension to screening cases, albeit logical, created a sedation-related barrier to colonoscopy scree...
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Medknow Publications
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133991/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21727740 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.82588 |
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author | Leung, Felix W. Aljebreen, Abdulrahman M. |
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description | Unsedated colonoscopy has been an evolving subject ever since its initial description four decades ago. Failure in unsedated diagnostic cases due to patient pain led to the introduction of sedation. Extension to screening cases, albeit logical, created a sedation-related barrier to colonoscopy screening. In recent years a water method has been developed to combat the pain during unsedated colonoscopy in the US. In randomized controlled trials the water method decreases pain, increases cecal intubation success, and enhances the proportion of patients who complete unsedated colonoscopy. The salvage cleansing of suboptimal bowel preparation by the water method serendipitously may have increased the detection of adenoma in both unsedated and sedated patients. The state-of-the-art lecture concludes that unsedated colonoscopy is feasible. The hypothesis is that recent advances, such as the development of the water method, may contribute to reviving unsedated colonoscopy as a potentially attractive option for colon cancer screening and deserves to be tested. |
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spelling | pubmed-31339912011-07-19 Unsedated Colonoscopy: Is It Feasible? Leung, Felix W. Aljebreen, Abdulrahman M. Saudi J Gastroenterol New Horizon Unsedated colonoscopy has been an evolving subject ever since its initial description four decades ago. Failure in unsedated diagnostic cases due to patient pain led to the introduction of sedation. Extension to screening cases, albeit logical, created a sedation-related barrier to colonoscopy screening. In recent years a water method has been developed to combat the pain during unsedated colonoscopy in the US. In randomized controlled trials the water method decreases pain, increases cecal intubation success, and enhances the proportion of patients who complete unsedated colonoscopy. The salvage cleansing of suboptimal bowel preparation by the water method serendipitously may have increased the detection of adenoma in both unsedated and sedated patients. The state-of-the-art lecture concludes that unsedated colonoscopy is feasible. The hypothesis is that recent advances, such as the development of the water method, may contribute to reviving unsedated colonoscopy as a potentially attractive option for colon cancer screening and deserves to be tested. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3133991/ /pubmed/21727740 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.82588 Text en © Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | New Horizon Leung, Felix W. Aljebreen, Abdulrahman M. Unsedated Colonoscopy: Is It Feasible? |
title | Unsedated Colonoscopy: Is It Feasible? |
title_full | Unsedated Colonoscopy: Is It Feasible? |
title_fullStr | Unsedated Colonoscopy: Is It Feasible? |
title_full_unstemmed | Unsedated Colonoscopy: Is It Feasible? |
title_short | Unsedated Colonoscopy: Is It Feasible? |
title_sort | unsedated colonoscopy: is it feasible? |
topic | New Horizon |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133991/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21727740 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.82588 |
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