Laparoscopic Versus Open Appendectomy Prospective Randomized Control Study

Abanoub Atif Fawzy

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Appendicitis Acute

Treatments: Procedure: Conventional Lap appendectomy; Procedure: Open appendectomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05611489

Laparoscopic appendectomy

Details and patient eligibility

About

laparoscopic versus open appendectomy prospective randomized control study.Both surgical methods are safe and well established in clinical practice but there has been a controversy about which surgical procedure is the most appropriate in this research we are going to demonstrate which operative procedure is more beneficial with less disadvantages.

Full description

A double-blind study is one in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment. This procedure is utilized to prevent bias in research results. Using envelopes as an allocation concealment method. Each patient will receive two envelopes one contain paper which determine that patient will have open surgery and the other determine that patient will have lap surgery and neither patient nor experimenters know about them and patient shall choose one of them which will determine what surgery will patient undergo .

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 25 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. patient age between 5-50 year old
2. patient diagnosed as acute appendicitis

Exclusion criteria

1. pregnacy
2. perforated appendix
3. severe obese patient
4. previous abdominal exploration

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Open appendectomy

Other group

Description:

Appendectomy will be done through Mcberney incision.

Treatment:

Procedure: Open appendectomy

Conventional lap appendectomy

Other group

Description:

Three ports will be inserted as follows: One 10/12 umbilical port, one 5mm suprapubic (or right suprapubic)port, one 5mm or 10/12mm port in left iliac fossa (or left suprapubic).

Treatment:

Procedure: Conventional Lap appendectomy