Squatting on the Toilet and Capsule Endoscopy (SC)

Chongqing Medical University

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intestinal Diseases

Treatments

Behavioral: squatting on the toilet

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04340089

wuzhixuan2003

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effect of squatting on the toilet on gastric transit time and complete examination rate of capsule endoscopy.In the observation group, the patients could go to squatting on the toilet at any time as they want to after taking the capsule.

Full description

The subjects were divided into a control group and an observation group according to whether the patient squatted in the toilet, In the control group, the patients took discontinuous right lateral position, walked on a flat road and climbed the stairs alternately. In the observation group, in addition to the above ways, the patients could go to squatting on the toilet at any time in the first hour after taking the capsule. The operator observed the position of capsule every one hour. The examination was over when capsule endoscopy entered the colon. If the capsule remained in the small intestine, the examination continued until the capsule ran out of power.

Enrollment

300 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

8 to 75 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

unexplained gastrointestinal bleeding, unexplained chronic abdominal pain and diarrhea, suspected Crohn's disease, suspected small intestinal tumor, and patients needing to exclude small intestinal diseases.

Exclusion criteria