NCT01492296

Endoscopy With Short Fasting

Safety, Quality and Comfort of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy With Conscious Sedation After Fasting for Two Hours

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 115 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade de Passo Fundo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is widely used in the clinical practice. An empty stomach is required to ensure quality and safety. For this reason, endoscopy is conventionally performed after 8 or more hours of fasting, which is potentially related to discomfort to the patients. In recent studies, surgical cholecystectomy has been described to be safe after two hours of fasting on liquids. The aim of this study is to assess safety, quality and comfort of upper GI endoscopy after two hours of fasting.

Conditions

• Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	endoscopy after short fasting	patients were evaluated with endoscopy after fasting for two hours
PROCEDURE	conventional fasting	patients were evaluated after fasting for 8 hours

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-03-01
• Primary completion: 2011-11-01
• Completion: 2011-11-01
• First posted: 2011-12-14
• Last updated: 2011-12-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil