Can we Safely Have Our Patients Eat With Cardiac Catheterization - Nix Or alloW: The CHOW NOW Study

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Conditions studied: Chest Pain

In brief

The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and effects of fasting or not fasting overnight before a cardiac catheterization (heart procedure). The study will compare patients who have nothing to eat after midnight before the procedure to those who are allowed to eat or drink before the procedure.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02373527

Run by

The Guthrie Clinic

People needed

619

Starts

2015-03-18

Expected to finish

2019-06-05

Last updated by the study team

2019-06-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Subjects who are planned for coronary angiogram or percutaneous intervention, either as outpatients or inpatients

You may not qualify if…

• Subjects undergoing emergent procedures or requiring post procedure emergent cardiothoracic surgery
• Pregnant Women
• Prisoners

Where it is running

• Robert Packer Hospital — Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States

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