Warm Water and Unsedated Colonoscopy (WW)

Presidio Ospedaliero Santa Barbara

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Gastrointestinal Diseases; Digestive System Diseases

Treatments: Other: air insufflation; Other: warm water irrigation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01463319

ASL07_WW-2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

Unsedated or slightly sedated colonoscopy has fast recovery time, less cost and lower or no incidence of drug-related side effects. May be slightly painful or discomforting for the patient. Based on numerous recent reports, the investigators designed this randomized controlled trial hypothesizing that the use of warm water irrigation versus air insufflation during the insertion phase of colonoscopy might increase the global tolerability of the examination and the proportion of patients undergoing complete colonoscopy without sedation or with a low dose of sedatives.

Enrollment: 818 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 Years to 85 Years
• adult patients willing to undergo colonoscopy without routine initial sedation

Exclusion criteria

• refuse to initiate colonoscopy without routine sedation
• inadequate bowel preparation
• incapacity to give informed consent

Trial design

818 participants in 2 patient groups

warm water irrigation

Experimental group

Description:

warm water irrigation during insertion phase of colonoscopy

Treatment:

Other: warm water irrigation

air insufflation

Experimental group

Description:

air insufflation during insertion phase of colonoscopy

Treatment:

Other: air insufflation