Intra Operative Continuous Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring During Thyroid Surgery and Interpretation of the Post-operative Voice Quality in Relation to the Electromyography Data Obtained During Surgery (CoNeMoTS)

Ghent University Hospital (UZ)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thyroid Surgery

Treatments: Procedure: Continuous nerve monitoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01413802

2011/371

Details and patient eligibility

About

During thyroid surgery the laryngeal recurrent nerves (and for this reason the voice quality) are at risk. Therefore intra operative continuous neuromonitoring could help to prevent harm to these nerves. Electromyographic data (EMG values) are collected during surgery (1). In the postoperative follow-up period detailed voice analysis is performed (2): subjective auditive perceptive evaluation and videostroboscopy. Analysis and comparison of (1) and (2) will be performed in order to find out if we can find a predictive correlation between the EMG data (1) and the voice quality (2).

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients (men/women) requiring thyroid surgery

Exclusion criteria

• patients younger than 18 years, patients with preoperative vocal cord anatomical and functional anomalies.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Thyroid surgery.

Experimental group

Description:

Patients who undergo thyroid surgery during which intra operative continuous nerve monitoring will be used.

Treatment:

Procedure: Continuous nerve monitoring