Blade Finger Technique for Safe Laparoscopic Entery (new technique)

Zagazig University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Laparoscopic Surgery; Safety Issues; Operative Surgical Procedure; Insufflation

Treatments: Procedure: Hasson's technique; Procedure: veress needle technique; Procedure: finger-blade technique

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05475470

zuh 247

Details and patient eligibility

About

blade-finger technique is a new technique for laparoscopic access which is safe

Full description

after optaining irb approval and patients consented, they were divided into 3 groups to whom one of the techniques of laparoscopic entery was applied and there was a comparison between these groups

Enrollment: 1,005 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients more than 18 year-old.
• underwent laparoscopic surgery in general surgery departments in both centers from March, 2020 to May, 2022.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with one or more previous abdominal surgery (upper, lower or upper and lower midline scars).
• Patients with distended abdomen due to bowel obstruction.
• Patients with uncorrected coagulopathy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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1,005 participants in 3 patient groups

group a

Experimental group

Description:

the group we used our new blade-finger technique

Treatment:

Procedure: finger-blade technique

group b

Experimental group

Description:

the group we used Hasson's technique

Treatment:

Procedure: Hasson's technique

group c

Experimental group

Description:

the group we used veress needle technique

Treatment:

Procedure: veress needle technique