Is a six hour fast after a rice meal sufficient before upper gastrointestinal endoscopy?

• Register: SLCTR
• Last refreshed on: 27 April 2013
• Main ID: SLCTR/2008/004
• Date of registration: 28/03/2008
• Primary sponsor: None
• Public title: Is a six hour fast after a rice meal sufficient before upper gastrointestinal endoscopy?
• Scientific title: Is a six hour fast after a rice meal sufficient before upper gastrointestinal endoscopy?
• Date of first enrolment: 1/2/2008
• Target sample size: 300
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://www.slctr.lk/trial_details.asp?reg_id={669698D9-5183-4711-A312-234565CC7FC3}
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Randomized single blind study involving 300 patients

Countries of recruitment

Sri Lanka

Contacts

• Name: Dr.Arjuna De Silva
• Affiliation: Senior Lecturer,Consultant Physician

• Name: Dr.Arjuna De Silva
• Affiliation: Senior Lecturer,Consultant Physician

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients who have been referred to the Professorial unit of the Colombo North Teaching Hospital for routine endoscopy
Age between 18 and 65 years
Exclusion criteria: Patients not fulfilling inclusion criteria
Patients with alarm symptoms(bleeding,weight loss,dysphagia)
Clinically obvious motility disorders
Pregnancy

Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender:

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Preendoscopic preparation of patients undergoing toutine endoscopy

Intervention(s)

100 patients will be given a standard bread based meal and fast for six hours.100 patients are given an isocaloric rice based meal and fast for 6 hours while another 100 patients given the same diet will fast for 10 hours
They will then undergo routine endoscopy

Primary Outcome(s)

Clarity of endoscopic vision and presence of fluid in the fundus of the stomach assessed by an endoscopist blind to the preendoscopic preparation of the patient

Secondary Outcome(s)

Any complications post endoscopy

Secondary ID(s)

None

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Self funded