Intubation Techniques on Colonoscopy Quality (SINOCOLO2013)

Intubation Techniques on Colonoscopy Quality: A Single Center Randomized Control Clinical Trial

The primary aim of this study is

- to explore the usefulness of abdominal compression on intubation.

Other aims include

1. to investigate the effectiveness and the efficacy of different manners of abdominal compression and to analysis the reasons of their success and failure
2. to get the knowledge of the formation of colon loops and its frequency
3. to clarify the impact of intubation with loops on adenoma detection rate

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who undergo colonoscopy examination for screening, surveillance, diagnosis or treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant female patients
• Patients who have history of colorectal cancer, colorectal polyposis, inflammatory bowel disease or heredity colorectal neoplasm syndrome such as familiar adenomatous polyposis, Lynch Syndrome and so on
• Patients who had previous abdominal surgery
• Patients who are known to have colonic stricture or obstructing tumor from the results of radiography (X ray, CT scan or barium enema)
• Patients who are presenting acute surgical conditions such as severe colitis, megacolon and active gastrointestinal bleeding
• Patients who have inadequate bowel preparation
• Patients who reject to participate in this study