Perianal lidocaine may improve comfort and efficiency during unsedated adult colonoscopy

1. Perianal 2% lidocaine gel significantly reduced anal pain and shortened cecal intubation time during unsedated colonoscopy in adults aged 18–40 years. 2. The intervention appeared safe in this small trial and may be especially useful for junior endoscopists, but generalizability is limited by the single-centre design, modest sample size, and exclusion of patients older […] The post Perianal…