For Easy, Fast and Comfortable Colonoscopy, Which Position

Endoscopy Clinical Trial

— EFC_COLON  

Official title:

Which Position is Suitable for Easy, Fast and Comfortable Colonoscopy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03854422
• Other study ID #: EasyCOLON study
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 18, 2019
• Est. completion date: April 20, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: February 2019
• Source: Bulent Ecevit University
• Contact: BETÜL TOPAL, 1
• Phone: +905446555091
• Email: betultopal90[@]hotmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Colonoscopy is one of the most common endoscopic procedures today. However, it sometimes can be a serious challenging situation both for the clinicians and patients. In this study, the investigators tried to determine which colonoscopic position allows easy, fast and comfortable way.

Description:

colonoscopy and colonoscopic screening are the most common routine studies to reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer.In this process, the most important problem for the endoscopist and the patient is pain, loop formation, (the reason why the device is not able to progress in the bowel) and in some patients it takes a long time due to these reasons and the risk of complication development.The subject of what should be the most ideal position in colonoscopy has previously been studied in some specific subgroups.There is not enough study on what should be the ideal position in colonoscopy. In this study, the investigators tried to determine which colonoscopic position allows easy, fast and comfortable way.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: April 20, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: March 20, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients aged for 18 to 80 years,

• colonoscopy indications (iron deficiency anemia ,Malignancy screening in patients over 50 years of age,secret blood positivity in stool, rectal bleeding,patients describing Hematoconia, chronic diarrhea, constipation

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients with previous colon surgery

• serious comorbid disease (congestive heart failure ef< %30 , advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,terminal period cancer with a life expectancy of less than 5 years, those who have not had appropriate bowel cleaning,endoscopic treatment during colonoscopy or removal of diagnostic lesions,other sedatives for sedation other than midazolam

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Colonic Diseases
• Colonic Diseases, Functional
• Endoscopy
• Prone Position

Intervention

Device:
• left position
colonoscopy will be performed in 3 different locations. Left position, the patient will be in the left-side position during the entire colonoscopy
• left supine position
Colonoscopy in the Left supine position
• dynamic position
Colonoscopy in the Dynamic position

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Betul Topal	Zonguldak	Kozlu Bulent Ecevit University Faculty OF Medicine

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Bulent Ecevit University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Time to reach cecum	Cecum intubation time is the insertion time taken from first visualization of rectal mucosa to cecum	2 hour
Secondary	patient's comfort assessment: Visual Analog Score	patients' discomfort will be assessed by a 10-cm visual analog scale, in which a score of 0 denoted no pain and a score of 10 denoted unbearable pain	3 hour