Assess the Effect of Erythromycin on the Rate of Success in Placement of a Self-propelled Feeding Tube

Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Pancreatitis

Treatments: Drug: Erythromycin; Drug: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00999232

Bengmark_v1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of erythromycin on the Rate of Success in Placement of a Self-propelled Feeding Tube.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18-80 years
• Having pancreatitis
• Require jejunal enteral nutrition

Exclusion criteria

• Known impaired peristalsis (critically ill patients, postoperative patients, history of surgery of the stomach/duodenum)
• Pregnancy
• Hypersensibility to erythromycin
• Cardiac arrhythmias with a prolonged QT-time
• Simultaneous usage of drugs impairing peristalsis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Erythromycin

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: Erythromycin

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo