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With increasing experience and ease of use, wireless capsule endoscopy has become a popular tool for diagnosis of small bowel pathology. As with all tests in medicine, capsule endoscopy is only as useful as its ability to safely yield accurate results. Therefore, it is vital that clinicians familiarize themselves with appropriate criteria for use, accompanying assistive tools, and red flags that indicate the need for caution. This chapter will review the indications and contraindications of small bowel capsule endoscopy as well as familiarize the reader with appropriate steps that need to be taken to prepare patients for the procedure, including a review of the use of preparations, prokinetics, and the risks of capsule retention.
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Gross, M.R., Mishkin, D.S. (2017). SBCE Indications, Contraindications and Administration: Preps, Prokinetics, and Retention. In: Hass, D. (eds) Capsule Endoscopy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49173-8_2
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