Right or Left for Colonoscopy? (ROLCOL)

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colonoscopy

Treatments: Procedure: starting position in colonoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02305706

ROLCOL 1.0

Details and patient eligibility

About

Colonoscopy is technically challenging. Conventionally, colonoscopy begins with patients positioned in the left lateral position. However, few published studies have explored alternatives and there is consequently little evidence to support left lateral starting position over alternatives.

Full description

We aim to perform a randomised controlled trial of right versus left lateral starting position for colonoscopy. Primary outcome: time to caecum. Secondary outcomes: patient comfort; volume of sedation used.

Enrollment: 163 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• above 18 years of age,
• informed consent,
• routine or urgent procedures

Exclusion criteria

• emergency colonoscopy,
• scheduled intubation therapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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163 participants in 2 patient groups

Right

Experimental group

Description:

patients will be positioned on the right-lateral position at the start of colonoscopy

Treatment:

Procedure: starting position in colonoscopy

Left

Active Comparator group

Description:

patients will be positioned on the left-lateral position at the start of colonoscopy

Treatment:

Procedure: starting position in colonoscopy