ELECTRONIC PILLS

SmartPill is an ingestible capsule that measures pressure, pH and temperature as it travels through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to assess GI motility. The SmartPill motility monitoring test can be performed at a clinic or physician’s office to evaluate motility disorders like gastroparesis (a condition in which the contents of the stomach empty too slowly) and chronic constipation.

SmartPill also minimizes patient down-time by allowing patients to resume most normal daily activities while data are being collected by the capsule. SmartPill eliminates radiation exposure and is the only motility test that provides a complete transit profile of the GI tract.

What if physicians had a way to see inside a patient’s GI tract by having them simply swallowing a pill-sized camera?

Today, more than 1.5 million patients have experienced the benefits from PillCam capsule endoscopy.

With PillCam, physicians can now visualize the small bowel, esophagus and colon* with a small, disposable capsule used to monitor and diagnose disorders of the gastrointestinal tract without sedation or invasive endoscopic procedures.Credit goes to the company called GIVEN IMAGING