Endoscopy With Short Fasting (safendoscopy)

Universidade de Passo Fundo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms

Treatments: Procedure: conventional fasting; Procedure: endoscopy after short fasting

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01492296

safendoscopy

Details and patient eligibility

About

Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is widely used in the clinical practice. An empty stomach is required to ensure quality and safety. For this reason, endoscopy is conventionally performed after 8 or more hours of fasting, which is potentially related to discomfort to the patients. In recent studies, surgical cholecystectomy has been described to be safe after two hours of fasting on liquids. The aim of this study is to assess safety, quality and comfort of upper GI endoscopy after two hours of fasting.

Enrollment: 115 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• elective endoscopy

Exclusion criteria

• poor clinical condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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115 participants in 2 patient groups

conventional fasting

Active Comparator group

Description:

patients were evaluated after fasting for 8 hours

Treatment:

Procedure: conventional fasting

Short fasting

Experimental group

Description:

patients who were evaluated with endoscopy after fasting for two hours

Treatment:

Procedure: endoscopy after short fasting