What is it about?
Endoworm is a system that, adapted to any conventional endoscope, allows it to a better advance inside the small bowel. Movement is made by three pneumatic cavities, using just compressed air to make the endoscope advance.
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Why is it important?
Exploration time with conventional systems (double balloon and single balloon) is very long and exploration is not complete in the majority of cases. The aim of the Endoworm system is to reduce the exploration time and allow to made complete small bowel explorations.
Perspectives
This is the first paper dedicated to the Endoworm system. Research continues and new papers including system innovations will be published soon.
Dr. Carlos Sanchez Diaz
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Endoworm: A new semi-autonomous enteroscopy device, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H Journal of Engineering in Medicine, October 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0954411918806330.
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