NCT01254435

Positioning During Colonoscopy

Does Patient Position During Extubation at Colonoscopy Influence the Quality of Mucosal Visualisation?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Colonoscopy is the gold standard investigation in the screening of colorectal neoplasms. The investigators hypothesise that visualisation of the colonic mucosa on extubation may be improved by changing patient position as follows: left lateral position for the right colon, supine for the transverse colon and right lateral position for the left colon(fixed positioning). The investigators aim to validate our hypothesis by performing a randomised control study, comparing mucosal visualisation in patients placed in the 'routine' positions at the discretion of the endoscopist with visualisation in those placed in the above described positions. The hypothesis is that fixed positioning confers an advantage.

Conditions

• Colonic Polyps

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Colonoscopy	Recording of colonoscopic extubation

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-05-01
• Primary completion: 2009-08-01
• Completion: 2010-09-01
• First posted: 2010-12-06
• Last updated: 2010-12-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom