Comparison of Post-operative Pain at Umbilical Wound After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy With Transumbilical Versus Infraumbilical Incision

Thammasat University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gallstone; Pain, Postoperative

Treatments: Procedure: transumbilical incision; Procedure: Infra umbilical incision

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02738710

MTU-EC-SU-1-042/59

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study compare outcomes (i.e. pain, wound infection, and patient satisfaction) between infra-umbilical vs. trans-umbilical incision after Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Full description

Infra-umbilical wound have been used for a while with aim at improving cosmoses of the incision. Formerly, standard incision for laparoscopic cholecystectomy was infra-umbilical wound. However, no study directly compare these types of incisions in term of postoperative pain, wound infection, and patient satisfaction.

Enrollment: 102 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• willing to participate

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy
• immunocompromised host
• on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
• morbid obesity (Body mass index > 35 kg/m2)
• End-stage renal disease with hemodialysis dependent
• ascites
• uncontrolled coagulopathy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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102 participants in 2 patient groups

transumbilical wound

Experimental group

Description:

transumbilical incision

Treatment:

Procedure: transumbilical incision

infra umbilical wound

Active Comparator group

Description:

infra umbilical incision

Treatment:

Procedure: Infra umbilical incision