A Bedside Portable Endoscopy for the Esophageal Foreign Body

Kyungpook National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Esophageal Foreign Body

Treatments: Device: A bedside portable endoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03009383

KNUH20161227

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a bedside portable endoscopy is effective in identifying the esophageal foreign body in the emergency room.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who visit the emergency room due to apparent foreign body in esophagus

Exclusion criteria

• Patients unable to insert a portable endoscopy through the nasal cavity
• Patients unable to undergo conventional esophagogastroduodenoscopy for a gold standard examination

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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27 participants in 1 patient group

A bedside portable endoscopy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: A bedside portable endoscopy