Patients receive points for each of the following medication groups: anticonvulsants; anticoagulants; cathartics or diuretics; antihypertensives or other cardiac medications; narcotics or opiates ...
Patients were excluded if they received additional cathartics, underwent colonoscopy while admitted to a critical care unit, or were admitted for a complication arising from an outpatient colonoscopy.
This can be done by softening the stool using oral cathartics or a series of enemas. After the colon is evacuated, long-term laxative therapy is started, aiming to produce one to two soft stools ...