Water Method in Elder Patients With Unsedated Colonoscopy

Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Water Method With Water Exchange Versus Air Insufflation in Elder Patients Undergoing Unsedated Colonoscopy: a Prospective Randomized, Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01546220
• Other study ID #: 20120216-5
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 24, 2012
• Last updated: March 24, 2016
• Start date: November 2011
• Est. completion date: December 2014

Study information

• Verified date: March 2016
• Source: Fourth Military Medical University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: China: Food and Drug Administration
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Water method with water exchange has been shown to reduce medication requirement and pain experienced during colonoscopy. It increases the success rate of cecal intubation in sedated and unsedated patients undergoing screening colonoscopy. Exchange of water during scope insertion minimizes distension of the colonic lumen and decreases loop formation. Exclusion of air from the colon during insertion by omission of air insufflations and suction removal of residual air prevent elongation of the colon. These maneuvers facilitate colonoscopy insertion in average patients and may enhance the success of difficult colonoscopy.

Older age is independently associated with incomplete colonoscopy, the investigators postulate that these patients may benefit from using the water method for colonoscopy. In this proposal the investigators test the hypothesis that compared with conventional air insufflations the water method with water exchange significantly enhances the success rate of cecal intubation in elder patients.

The aim of the study is to compare the outcome of colonoscopy using the water method versus the conventional air method in elder patients. The primary outcome is cecal intubation success rate. The secondary outcomes include cecal intubation time, maximum pain score during colonoscopy, overall pain score after colonoscopy and adenoma detection rate.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: December 2014
• Est. primary completion date: November 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 70 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients over the age of 70

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of colorectal surgery

• Severe colonic stricture or obstructing tumor

• Patients who cannot give informed consent and those who are hemodynamically unstable

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Screening

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adenoma
• Pain

Intervention

Other:
• Water colonoscopy
Colonoscopy will be performed without medications and aided by water infusion in-lieu of air insufflation during insertion of the colonoscope. The water infusion involves putting warm sterile water into the colon to open up the colon for advancement of the colonoscope until the end of the colon (cecum) is reached. The water is delivered through scope irrigation channel by an infusion pump equipped with a foot switch which will be controlled by the endoscopist. Infused water used to cleanse residual fecal matter will be suctioned as needed to clear the colonic lumen.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Endoscopic center, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases	Xi'an	Shaanxi

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fourth Military Medical University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Cecal intubation success rate	Insertion of a colonoscope to the cecum	up to two years	No
Secondary	Adenoma detection rate	The proportion of participants with at least one adenoma in each group	up to two years	No
Secondary	Pain Scores on the Visual Analog Scale	0 = no pain, to 10 = most severe pain	up to two years	No
Secondary	Cecum intubation time	Total time of colonoscope intubation from anus to cecum	up to two years	No