Endoscopy With Short Fasting

Safety, Quality and Comfort of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy With Conscious Sedation After Fasting for Two Hours

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01492296

Acronym

safendoscopy

Enrollment

115

Registered

2011-12-14

Start date

2011-03-31

Completion date

2011-11-30

Last updated

2011-12-14

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Conditions

Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms

Brief summary

Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is widely used in the clinical practice. An empty stomach is required to ensure quality and safety. For this reason, endoscopy is conventionally performed after 8 or more hours of fasting, which is potentially related to discomfort to the patients. In recent studies, surgical cholecystectomy has been described to be safe after two hours of fasting on liquids. The aim of this study is to assess safety, quality and comfort of upper GI endoscopy after two hours of fasting.

Interventions

PROCEDUREendoscopy after short fasting

patients were evaluated with endoscopy after fasting for two hours

PROCEDUREconventional fasting

patients were evaluated after fasting for 8 hours

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Masking

SINGLE (Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* elective endoscopy

Exclusion criteria

* poor clinical condition

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
safety	10 min (endoscopy duration)	safety of endoscopy after fasting for two hours will be assessed by means of a questionnaire replied by the endoscopists, questioning occurrence of aspiration and regurgitation of gastric contents into the esophagus.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
quality	10 min (endoscopy duration)	Quality of endoscopy will be assessed by means of a questionnaire replied by the endoscopists, including (1) presence of liquid in the gastric lumen (2) quality of mucosa visualization (3)period needed for gastric aspiration
Endoscopy comfort	8 hours	Endoscopy comfort will be evaluated by the patients by means of a questionnaire replied after the procedures. It will include questions about thirst, hunger, anxiety, weakness and nausea.

Countries

Brazil

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 22, 2026