Since the M2A capsule endoscope of Israel GI company entered China in 2002, more than 30 hospitals have introduced this equipment, however, due to some limitations on the function of the product, especially the price is too high (in the early stage, the patient's cost for one examination is as high as 8,000 to about 10,000 yuan), so the number of use has been greatly affected.
Compared with the imported capsule endoscopes, the domestic OMOM capsule endoscopes drastically reduced in price, with an examination fee of about 3,000 yuan, and at the same time, they have their own unique advantages in terms of technology, so that the OMOM capsule endoscopes have rapidly occupied the market due to their low price and high technological content since they were introduced. At present, it has been put into clinical use in more than 40 large hospitals such as Beijing Friendship Hospital, Beijing Military Region General Hospital, Shanghai Changhai Hospital, Chengdu Huaxi Hospital, Guangzhou Nanfang Hospital and Chongqing Xinqiao Hospital.
The value of capsule endoscopy in clinical application has always been a problem that bothers hospitals and manufacturers. They are all seeking to position the value of their products from different angles. In the earliest days, Israel's M2A is located in the whole digestive tract examination, but, because the stomach lumen body is too large, and can not control the period of time elapsed, so the randomness is too strong to be used as a choice of stomach examination, coupled with the gastroscopy technology has been very mature, so the M2A chose to differentiate the positioning of the M2A is only clear that the M2A is used for the examination of the small intestine. This is because the small intestine, which is 5-7 meters long, has long been known as a blind spot in clinical examinations.
The manufacturer of the domestic OMOM capsule endoscope has taken a completely different line of thinking in positioning its clinical value. They will OMOM capsule endoscopy clinical value, is located in three aspects: First, comfortable means of examination, to meet the poor tolerance of the population to check the disease and the high-end population checkups; second is a comprehensive means of diagnosis and treatment, and other means of examination of the digestive tract with the means of improving the diagnostic accuracy; third is a breakthrough means of small intestines, in the small intestine can not be reached by the traditional methods of examination to achieve a true-color image examination.
The birth of capsule endoscopy, in addition to the blind spot of the small intestine has a major breakthrough, but also to enable the early diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases. There is an old Chinese saying that "prevention is better than cure". However, in order to do this in the clinic, it is necessary to have advanced, safe and comfortable medical equipment to cooperate. At present, many of the treatment and examination equipment do not achieve painless and non-invasive, so that patients have a psychological fear and rejection, resulting in many diseases can not be detected at an early stage, so that "once detected is the late stage". OMOM capsule endoscopy is a new, safe and comfortable means of examination of the digestive tract, which can eliminate the patient's fear of examination, so that the patient can easily accept the examination. OMOM capsule endoscopy is a new, safe and comfortable means of examination of the digestive tract, which can eliminate the patient's fear of the examination and make the patient easy to accept, thus making OMOM capsule endoscopy has the important application value of early diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases.
The clinical application of OMOM capsule endoscopy has already shown that, in addition to some patients receiving the examination because of their illnesses and pains, more than half of the examinees belong to the nature of physical examination. It proves that capsule endoscopy also has a broader application space in physical examination. With the improvement of people's quality of life, the pursuit of health has become a necessity. If OMOM capsule endoscopy can be vigorously promoted and applied in medical checkups, it can be expected that the national late incidence of digestive diseases will be greatly reduced.