On average, colonoscope insertion is considered more difficult in women than men, and most colonoscopists meet patients, including women, who request an attempt at unsedated procedures. In a randomized controlled trial comparing outcomes, 220 Japanese women underwent unsedated colonoscopy with a small-caliber colonoscope that is 9.2 mm in diameter and 168 cm in length or with a standard colonoscope that is 12.2 mm in diameter and 133 cm in length. The small-caliber scope has the passive bending and high-force transmission elements introduced with the Olympus 190 series scopes (Olympus Medical Systems, Tokyo, Japan). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The small-caliber scope resulted in a higher cecal intubation rate (99% vs 93%), and all patients who could not tolerate the standard scope underwent successful colonoscopy with the small-caliber instrument. Overall pain, according to a visual analog scale, was lower with the small-caliber scope than the standard scope (score, 20.0 vs 32.4; P<\/em><.0001), and maximum pain was lower at 28.9 vs 47.2, respectively (P<\/em><.0001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On average, colonoscope insertion is considered more difficult in women than men, and most colonoscopists meet patients, including women, who request an attempt at unsedated procedures. In a randomized controlled trial comparing outcomes, 220 Japanese women underwent unsedated colonoscopy with a small-caliber colonoscope that is 9.2 mm in diameter and 168 cm in length or … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[2058,2836,2835,2834,2837],"class_list":["post-10612","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-colon-2","tag-olympus-190-series-scopes","tag-skinny-scopes","tag-small-caliber-scope","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/10612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}