Lidocaine Spray on an Endoscope to Improve Tolerance to Endoscopy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators tested whether a new method which additional lidocaine spray on the tip of endoscope can increase the tolerance of examinee during endoscopy than conventional pharyngeal anesthesia alone.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cheju Halla General Hospital
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All the patients who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in Endoscopy Room, Cheju Hall General Hospital.

Exclusion Criteria:

• advanced older or younger age (> 90, or < 15 years)

• comorbidities scored greater than III of American Society of Anestheiologists Physical Status Classification System (ASA) score

• history of hypersensitivity reaction to lidocaine

• he pregnant

• therapeutic or emergency endoscopy