Intraprocedural bowel cleansing with the JetPrep cleansing system improves adenoma detection

Table 1 Inclusion and Exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

All patients ≥ 50 yr of age who reported for a screening or surveillance colonoscopy and had a history of removed adenomas were included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Patients who were unable to sign the informed consent form

Patients who had undergone previous (partial) resection of the large bowel, except for appendectomy

Patients with known or pre-existing colorectal carcinoma

Patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease

Patients with known FAP or HNPCC syndromes in the family

Patients with a Quick score < 50%, pTT > 50 s, or thrombocytes < 50000/μL who had received no specific measures for the improvement of their coagulation (FFP, TK) before the examination

Patients suffering from a severe underlying disease (ASA > II°)

Patients who were determined to have a cleanliness score of 3 on the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale for the proximal portion of the colon during the examination

Patients in whom a complete colonoscopy could not be performed in the first or second step of the investigation

Patients in whom the first step of the investigation took ≥ 45 min