Topical Pharyngeal Anesthesia With Articaine for Gastroscopy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Topical Pharyngeal anesthesia (TPA) is widely used during upper endoscopy. Articaine is local anaesthetic that have not been previously evaluated in pharyngeal anesthesia for upper endoscopy. The aim of this study was to compare pharyngeal anesthesia with 4% articaine to placebo (Na0,9%) during gastroscopy in terms of benefit on patients' and endoscopists' satisfaction.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Helsinki University Central Hospital
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Carticaine; Pharmaceutical Solutions

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• healthy volunteers

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnancy

• allergy to articaine, propofol, alfentanil