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Breaking Fasts Ahead of Cardiac Caths

NCT06996639 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2025-12-16

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to find out whether fasting is necessary before urgent inpatient cardiac catheterizations. For patients presenting with urgent heart-related pain or even mild heart attacks, researchers want to know whether eating and drinking before their procedure improves comfort without raising the risk of complications.

The study will answer:

* Does eating and drinking before the procedure improve patient comfort?
* Does it increase the risk of adverse events like vomiting, aspiration (food or liquid entering the lungs), breathing problems, or death, etc?

Participants will be randomly assigned to either:

* A standard fasting group (no food for 6 hours, no clear liquids for 2 hours), or
* A no-fasting group (able to eat and drink as usual).

Patients will complete brief surveys before the procedure to assess comfort and satisfaction. Researchers will also review medical records weekly and 30 days later to monitor for safety outcomes.

Conditions

  • Stable Angina (SA)
  • Unstable Angina (UA)
  • NSTEMI - Non-ST Segment Elevation MI

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Non-Fasting

No pre-procedural fasting required; participants may eat and drink as usual.

BEHAVIORAL

Fasting

Standard pre-procedural fasting (≥6 hours for solids, ≥2 hours for clear liquids) or "NPO at Midnight."

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of South Florida

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Samip Vasaiwala, MD · USF Department of Internal Medicine; Division of Cardiovascular Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-10-13
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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