Assess the Effect of Erythromycin on the Rate of Success in Placement of a Self-propelled Feeding Tube

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of erythromycin on the Rate of Success in Placement of a Self-propelled Feeding Tube.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital
• Treatments: Erythromycin; Erythromycin Estolate; Erythromycin Ethylsuccinate; Erythromycin stearate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Aged 18-80 years

• Having pancreatitis

• Require jejunal enteral nutrition

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known impaired peristalsis (critically ill patients, postoperative patients, history of surgery of the stomach/duodenum)

• Pregnancy

• Hypersensibility to erythromycin

• Cardiac arrhythmias with a prolonged QT-time

• Simultaneous usage of drugs impairing peristalsis