The use of bowel relaxant Buscopan® to improve the detection of colonic polyps during colonoscopy

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Colonoscopy; Colonic polyp; Colorectal carcinoma; Digestive System; Other diseases of intestine

• Registration Number: ISRCTN25405865
• Lead Sponsor: Deventer Hospital (Netherlands)

Brief Summary

1. 2012 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22317882

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2010-11-17
• Study Completion: 2012-01-15
• Last Update Posted: 8 April 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 672

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients aged 30 years or older
2. Able to understand and give informed consent
3. Routinely referred for colonoscopy

Exclusion Criteria

1. Pregnancy
2. Myasthenia gravis
3. Exacerbation of inflammatory bowel disease
4. Suspicion of ongoing diverticulitis
5. Expectation of an estimated probability of complete colonoscopy of less than 50%, e.g. by the presence of a stenosis

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The number of colonoscopies during which at least one polyp has been found divided by the total number of colonoscopies