Problems of bowel preparation for colonoscopy (review)

Abstract

Inadequate bowel preparation leads to wasting work time and losing clinic and patients money. it puts patients at additional risk which is associated with repeat colonoscopy and potential complications. А critical review of the current literature has been performed to develop an individual preparation algorithms for high risk patients. The search was done in PubMed and E-library databases using the keywords: «Colonoscopy», «Colon cleaning», «Bowel», «Quality of colonoscopy», «colonoscopy», «preparation». CONCLUSION: an individualised scheme of preparation for colonoscopy looks to be promising. An additional improving result of the colonoscopy can be achieved with the patients training — information brochure, videos or text messages.