A Novel Clinically Usable Point Score To Prejudge The Complexity Of Colonoscopy

Completed

• Conditions: Insertion Time

• Registration Number: NCT02105025
• Lead Sponsor: Air Force Military Medical University, China

Brief Summary

Colonoscopy is the current common method for management of colorectal diseases, and effectiveness of colonoscopy associate with complication rate. A lot of patients were failed because of technical difficulty, those required more than 10 min to intubate the cecum are consider as difficult colonoscopy, in such condition, specialized equipment or maneuvers may be required for a successful colonoscopy. Thus, it is important to set up a clinical model to predict the technical difficulty of the examination in preoperational stage.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-12
• Primary Completion: 2014-02
• Study Completion: 2014-02
• Study First Submitted: 2014-03-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-04-04
• Study First Posted: 2014-04-07
• Status Verified: 2014-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-05-05
• Last Update Posted: 2014-05-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 612

Inclusion Criteria

• patients aged 18-90 years old who undergoing colonoscopy without sedation

Exclusion Criteria

• no bowel preparation or colon cleansing by enema only
• no need to reach cecum
• prior finding of severe colon stenosis or obstructing tumour
• history of colectomy
• unstable hemodynamics
• pregnant
• unable to give informed consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Cecal intubation time	up to 4 months	Total time of colonoscope intubation from anus to cecum.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Endoscopic center, Xi jing Hospital of Digestive; 🇨🇳 Xi'an, Shanxi, China