Breeza® Flavored Beverage for Neutral Abdominal / Pelvic Imaging

• 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
• Low viscosity beverage (10.5cP); easy to drink
• Helps improve drinking compliance; patient satisfaction

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.

The higher the viscosity of a fluid, the harder it is for patients to drink the entire amount of fluid needed for their exam

Breeza flavored beverage for neutral abdominal imaging is a non-carbonated, sugar-free, gluten-free beverage with a light, refreshing lemon-lime flavor and a viscosity of 10.5cP which is slightly more viscous than water, providing a better “mouth feel” and palatability for patients.
Researchers representing the divisions of radiology, gastroenterology, and biostatistics at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, NY) performing an evaluation of patient tolerance, efficacy, and willingness to repeat the procedure found that Breeza flavored beverage for neutral/abdominal imaging scored significantly higher in taste, ease of drinking, and willingness to repeat the drinking protocol than the barium sulfate solution.

Patient Drinking Compliance in Enterography can be a “Breeze”

In most cases, it’s not necessarily the volume of fluid that affects patient compliance with drinking instructions, it’s the texture of the fluid.
A 1% barium sulfate solution has a viscosity of 80.5cP – a viscosity profile that’s similar light weight to cooking oils. Even with best efforts to improve the taste, patients have a hard time drinking a quart of fluid at this viscosity.
Not only does this affect throughput as technologists may have to spend time coaching patients to drink, for many patients, the experience of the exam prep makes them unwilling to repeat the drinking protocol for future exams, which many routinely undergo due to their chronic condition.

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