{"id":345,"date":"2011-11-15T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T19:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogstemp3.wpengine.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-11-15T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T19:25:28","slug":"water-aided-colonoscopy-does-the-temperature-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/water-aided-colonoscopy-does-the-temperature-matter\/2011\/11\/15\/","title":{"rendered":"Water-aided colonoscopy: Does the temperature matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Many, if not most, colonoscopists are now convinced that using water infusion during scope insertion leads to less patient discomfort and lower sedation needs. What is often used in this situation is water that has been warmed under the assumption that warm is better (i.e., causing less spasm). However, using warm water out of the tap or warmed to a specific temperature in a bath has not been demonstrated to improve outcomes of colonoscopy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I am interested in hearing about from you is:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you routinely use water infusion during colonoscopy?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If yes, what temperature do you use?<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you use warm water, in what manner do you think it further improves colonoscopy versus room-temperature water, and what specific temperature do you warm it to?<\/p>\n<p>I look\u00a0forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many, if not most, colonoscopists are now convinced that using water infusion during scope insertion leads to less patient discomfort and lower sedation needs. What is often used in this situation is water that has been warmed under the assumption that warm is better (i.e., causing less spasm). However, using warm water out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,35,36],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endoscopy","tag-colonoscopy","tag-endoscopy","tag-gastroenterology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/gastroenterology\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}