NCT01463319

Warm Water and Unsedated Colonoscopy

Warm Water Colonoscopy: a Novel Method for Unsedated Colonoscopy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 818 (actual)
• Sponsor: Presidio Ospedaliero Santa Barbara · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Gastrointestinal Diseases
• Digestive System Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	air insufflation	air insufflation during insertion phase colonoscopy
OTHER	warm water irrigation	warm water irrigation during insertion phase colonoscopy

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-09-01
• Completion: 2012-09-01
• First posted: 2011-11-01
• Last updated: 2013-02-08

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Italy