Best Practice: Applying Abdominal Pressure for More Successful Colonoscopy Screenings

Linda Beaver, RN, MSN, MHA, administrator at Gateway Endoscopy Center in St. Louis, shares a best practice on how ASCs can achieve more effective and successful colonoscopy screenings with patients.

Linda Beaver: Everyone's colon is a little differently shaped, so it can be hard to get the scope through the colon during a colonoscopy procedure. If you apply pressure on the patient's abdomen while the physician moves the scope through, it helps him [or her] observe every part of the colon as much as possible with the goal of detecting all the polyps. The Mayo Clinic produced a video on how to apply pressure in different ways to form your hands during pressure applications, where to apply pressure and so on.

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