Sedation Techniques for Outpatient Colonoscopy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This was a prospective, randomized, single-blind controlled clinical trial comparing three sedative regimens for outpatient colonoscopy.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre
• Treatments: Meperidine; Midazolam; Propofol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA I or II patients

• aged between 18 to 80 years

• scheduled for outpatient colonoscopy

Exclusion Criteria:

• history of or with psychiatric disease

• on psychoactive drugs

• mentally or physically unable to use the hand-held device for PCS

• previous complications from anaesthesia or sedation

• potentially difficult airway maintenance

• obstructive sleep apnoea

• pregnant

• with contraindications to the study drugs