Transnasal endoscopy: image quality and patient acceptability
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- pper gastro intestinal endoscopySurgery
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN08227262
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Edinburgh (UK)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 250
Inclusion Criteria
1. Routine indication for diagnostic upper GI endoscopy
2. Age over 18
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients who demand an under sedation upper endoscopy
2. Pregnant women
3. Patients with any malformation of nasal area or previous nose surgery or fractures
4. History of frequent nose bleeds or blood coagulopathy
5. Patients receiving warfarin
6. Psychiatric disorders
7. Patient allergic to the local anaesthetic used
8. High risk for Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) patients
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method