offered a financial advantage. Carbon dioxide, with its ability to
improve a colonoscopy screening's efficiency, also increased our
patient satisfaction scores and the time savings we realized allowed
us to pay for switching to gas within a year.
Despite it being fairly well known in the industry that using CO2 to
insufflate colonoscopy patients improves their comfort, it's not yet the
standard practice in all facilities. One factor contributing to this is its
higher cost. In our facility, physicians were split among those who
wanted to use CO2 and those who weren't sure if it was worth the
added expense. That's why we conducted a trial to detail how CO2
insufflation impacted patient care and exactly how much extra it cost
us to implement the practice.
To run the trial, we took one of our three procedure rooms and ded-
icated it as the CO2
room. Patients receiv-
ing colonoscopies in
this room were given
CO2 insufflation,
while those in our
other two rooms
received air insuffla-
tion. Not only did this
let us compare CO2
patients to our control
group, but it also gave
us a good idea of how
many tanks we would
go through per room,
how long the tanks
would run and what
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