"patient is usually positioned during interval fluoroscopy for better evaluation of small bowel loops and paddle palpation is used to spread out bowel loops."
"The presence of oral contrast in the large bowel at 24 hours post-administration has been shown to predict the resolution of small bowel obstruction with 97% sensitivity and 96% specificity 4."
"A small bowel follow through is a single contrast study (oral contrast, either barium or water-soluble contrast). It is often performed after an upper GI fluoroscopic study, as the contrast column moves from the stomach and duodenum into the small bowel. A small bowel follow through may also be performed by itself, without the upper GI investigation of the oesophagus, stomach, and proximal duodenum, but this is less common."
"A small bowel follow through is a single contrast study (oral contrast, either barium or water-soluble contrast). It is often performed after an upper GI fluoroscopic study, as the contrast column moves from the stomach and duodenum into the small bowel. A small bowel follow through may also be performed by itself, without the upper GI investigation of the oesophagus, stomach, and proximal duodenum, but this is less common."
"high-density barium used for double-contrast upper GI studies is suboptimal for evaluation of distal small bowel loops"
"first, a single contrast upper GI is performed"
"normal small bowel transit ranges between 30-120 minutes"
Expected headings
"Variations"
"Therapeutic"
"barium specially prepared for the small bowel (e.g. low density 30-50% weight/volume)"
"There are multiple different techniques that have evolved for performing a small bowel follow through. The following technique is one conventional approach."