Effect of Additive Lorazepam on Patient Satisfaction as a Premedication in Diagnostic Flexible Bronchoscopy

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2010-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Many patients undergoing flexible bronchoscopy (FB) experience anxiety and discomfort during the procedure. The investigators want to evaluate whether an additional Lorazepam premedication would improve patient satisfaction for FB.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital
• Treatments: Lorazepam

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients (aged 18 years or older) admitted to the Respiratory Department

Exclusion Criteria:

• outpatient procedures

• therapeutic bronchoscopy

• expected operation or discharge within 24 hours after the FB

• sedative premedication

• endotracheal intubation with mechanical ventilation

• inability to speak Korean