3-midline-ports Cholecystectomy

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Postoperative Pain

Treatments: Procedure: 3-midline-ports laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01378819

UMH

Details and patient eligibility

About

The 3-midline-ports technique is a safety approach and associates lower postoperative pain, when compared with the standard "French" technique.

Full description

The patients will be randomized into 2 groups: those patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy following the "French" technique (Group 1) and those ones undergoing the 3-midline-ports approach (Group 2).

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstones.

Exclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of acute cholecystitis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)