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This article focuses on complications in colonoscopy related to colonic insufflation. Causes of colonic insufflation complications are examined and methods that may be used to minimize complications are proposed. Testing of state-of-the-art video colonoscope systems is the basis of this analysis of insufflation complications and the resulting recommendations.
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ECRI was the location of the testing and research presented in this paper. ECRI, formerly known as Emergency Care Research Institute, is an independent and nonprofit health-care research organization that, among other functions, evaluates medical device technologies and provides guidance on their safe application
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Picciano, L.D., Hansel, B.C. & Luchette, F.A. Insufflation. Surg Endosc 9, 834–837 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00190095
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00190095