Effectiveness and Safety Evaluation of Aqueduct 100-device

Aqueduct Medical

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cervix Uteri Dilation

Treatments: Device: Aqueduct 100 dilation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02959567

AQD 01-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of efficacy and safety of using Aqueduct -100 - Cervical Dilator Device, focusing on diagnostic or operative hysteroscopies.

Full description

There are predominantly two major dilatation techniques that are employed in dilating the cervix. The first technique uses expansible dry solid material, such as laminaria (seaweed) is inserted into the cervix in its dried stiff form. In the cervix it comes into contact with body fluids that cause the laminaria to swell and enlarge the cervical cavity. The second more widespread procedure, involves the use of series of solid, rod like instruments of graduated diameter used in serial fashion by the physician (Hegar dilators). The physician first inserts a rod like dilator and replaces it with the dilator of next higher diameter. This procedure continues until adequate dilatation occurs.

The Problem is that each of the above-mentioned methods has its shortcomings: the use of the laminaria method (rarely done) requires preliminary patient visit, for insertion of the laminaria rod and is extremely slow and typically involves often as much as 10-12 hours for a significant amount of dilatation to occur.

The use of rod-like instruments (Hegar) requires general or regional anesthesia, when local anesthetics are used, the patient nevertheless frequently experiences a great amount of discomfort from the procedure. The mechanical dilatation of the cervix demands a large amount of longitudinal force that may damage or even puncture the cervix and the uterus.

Aqueduct 100 is a catheter for use in dilating various body cavities and especially the human cervix. The device will enable continuous, fast and safe dilatation of the cervix to a pre-determined diameter as a pre-procedure to intrauterine surgeries.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects, females, 18 years of age or older.
• Subjects undergoing diagnostic or operative hysteroscopies
• Subjects willing to sign informed consent form.

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects younger than 18 years of age
• Subjects unwilling to sign the informed consent form
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Aqueduct 100 dilation

Experimental group

Description:

Uterine cervix dilation through Aqueduct-100 device

Treatment:

Device: Aqueduct 100 dilation