How Taste Affects Your Oral Contrast Drinking Protocols
When patients have difficulty drinking the entire amount of oral contrast necessary for their abdominal scan in the required period of time, it has a domino effect on your imaging department's throughput and productivity. Improved patient compliance, more complete studies Developed by a radiologist, Breeza flavored beverage for use with oral iodinated contrast contains a bitterness blocker to mask the bitter taste of iodinated contrasts used in abdominal imaging. Patients are more receptive to Breeza flavored beverage for use with oral iodinated contrast's appealing look and great tropical fruit flavor, making them more likely to drink the entire amount required for the exam with minimal coaching or need for interventional measures such as NG tubing.
How Taste, Texture and Tolerability Affect Enterography Prep
In small bowel imaging, distention is the name of the game Unfortunately, in order to get the desired bowel distention for imaging, patients must ingest a large volume of fluid: usually 1350 – 1500ML, approximately 44 – 51 fluid ounces, within a 45 minute time-frame. To complicate matters, many patients in enterography are instructed to drink a 1% barium sulfate suspension which has a viscosity of 80.5cP in order to distend the small bowel. Viscosity is a measure of a fluid’s resistance to flow. The higher the viscosity, the more resistant to flow a fluid will be. For comparison purposes, water, arguably the most drinkable fluid for humans, has a viscosity of .899cP. A fluid with a viscosity of 80.5cP has a viscosity closer to light-weight cooking oils – corn oil has a viscosity of 72cP, olive oil a viscosity of 84cP.
Breeza® Flavored Beverage for use with Oral Iodinated Contrast
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Improve drinking compliance in diagnostic CT Breeza flavored beverage for use with oral iodinated contrast is easy to drink and tolerate. Greater palatability over other methods leads to improved patient compliance with drinking protocols, resulting in more complete studies.
- For use with oral iodinated contrast in diagnostic CT
- Tropical fruit-flavored beverage.
- Helps improve drinking compliance; patient satisfaction
Breeza® Flavored Beverage for Neutral Abdominal / Pelvic Imaging
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Improve drinking compliance in enterography Breeza flavored beverage for neutral abdominal/pelvic imaging's superior taste, texture, and tolerability over other neutral contrasts encourages patients to drink the full amount required; increases willingness to repeat exam.
- For use in CT or MR enterography
- Light lemon-lime flavored beverage
- Helps improve drinking compliance; patient satisfaction
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