NCT01322724

Comparing Warm Versus Cool Temperature Water During Colonoscopy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 175 (actual)
• Sponsor: OHSU Knight Cancer Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study will be to determine if the temperature of water used during insertion of colonoscopy makes a difference in patient discomfort and sedation requirements. The hypothesis of this study is patients receiving screening colonoscopy utilizing the water insertion method with room temperature (cool) water will have similar pain scores and medication requirements compared to water insertion method using body temperature (warm) water.

Conditions

• Colonoscopy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Warm vs Cool water	Body vs Room temperature water used during insertion of colonoscopy

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-04-01
• Completion: 2012-04-01
• First posted: 2011-03-25
• Last updated: 2012-05-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States