Healthy Volunteer Visibility Study of Micromachined Tags for the Detection of Surgical Sponges

University of Michigan

Status and phase: Withdrawn; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Injury Due to Foreign Object Accidentally Left in Body During Surgical Operation

Treatments: Radiation: Abdominal radiographs with microfabricated tags

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02009566

HUM00063233

Details and patient eligibility

About

Surgical sponges can be accidentally left inside patient's bodies. We are working on special tags (called microfabricated tags) that surgeons can put on their sponges. Then, if the surgeons forget to remove a sponge from a patient, they'll be able to detect these special tags in an x-ray.

Full description

Surgical sponges can be accidentally left inside patient's bodies. We are working on special tags (called microfabricated tags) that surgeons can put on their sponges. Then, if the surgeons forget to remove a sponge from a patient, they'll be able to detect these special tags in an x-ray. We wish to take x-rays of healthy people's abdomens with microfabricated tags lying on them. The x-rays will help us improve our system for detecting sponges left inside people's bodies.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Healthy men and women
2. Ages 18 or older -

Exclusion criteria

1. Under 18 years of age

2. Pregnant female or if female has not had a negative pregnancy test prior to the research scans.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Abdominal radiographs with microfabricated tags

Experimental group

Treatment:

Radiation: Abdominal radiographs with microfabricated tags