By GSN Staff
Endoscopists appear to gain a slight but significant advantage in cecal intubation time (CIT) by using an abdominal compression device on their heavier patients.
According to a recent sham-controlled study, use of the device, called the ColoWrap—which is intended to prevent sigmoid looping—by the most experienced endoscopists reduced CIT from 5.7 to 4.1 minutes among patients with a body mass index of at least 30 kg/m2 (P=0.03). Such gains were not