Erythromycin Versus Gastric Lavage to Improve Quality of Endoscopy in Patients With Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2015-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The researchers will investigate whether erythromycin infusion is better than gastric lavage prior to emergency endoscopy to improve the quality of examination in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
• Collaborator: Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad
• Treatments: Erythromycin; Erythromycin Estolate; Erythromycin Ethylsuccinate; Erythromycin stearate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• recent hematemesis (<12 hours)

Exclusion Criteria:

• macrolides allergy

• pregnancy or lactation

• treatment with terfenadine, astemizole or cyclosporine

• prior gastrectomy