People In Salt lake Swallow Camera's

People are swallowing camera's?  Is this some kind of a Fear Factor show?

No this is a real medical procedure.  Just new to the medical field.

It is a large vitamin sized pill use instead of endoscopy or colonocopy.

This technology is already developed and in use over the other dreaded procedures. It is used to diagnose many illnesses including gastroesophageal reflux disease  and  colon cancer of the small bowel.

Pill Cam ESO is taken with a glass of water.  It glides down taking about 2600 color digital pictures which are then transmitted to a recording device.  After 20 minutes the Doctor has enough video images to make an evaluation.

The procedure is painless, so no sedation is required.

The Pill Cam ESO is safe, painless and less expensive than the traditional method.

The Pill Cam ESO capsule cost $450 the complete diagnose is around $1000 to $2000.

There are some limitations as to who can benefit with this procedure.

 

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