Premedication Simethione Improves Visibility During Bowel Cleansing for Colonoscopy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To evaluate the efficacy, visibility of low volume polyethyleneglycol-simeticone (2-LPEG-S) for colonoscopy.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Changhai Hospital
• Collaborators: First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University; First Hospital of China Medical University; Jinan Military General Hospital; Qilu Hospital; Qilu Hospital of Shandong University; Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital; Tongji Hospital; Zhongda Hospital
• Treatments: Simethicone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients are between 18-65 years old

• undergoing colonoscopy for diagnostic investigation, colorectal cancer screening or follow-up

Exclusion Criteria:

• suspected gastrointestinal obstruction or perforation

• severe acute inflammatory bowel disease

• toxic megacolon

• ileus or gastric retention, ileostomy,

• hypersensitivity to any of the ingredients

• pregnancy and lactation and/or at a risk of becoming pregnant