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Percutaneous Externally-Assembled Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery

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Loma Linda University (LLU)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Urologic Diseases

Treatments

Procedure: PEAL surgery

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02811601
5160133

Details and patient eligibility

About

This will be a single-arm prospective internally-controlled study. Patients will undergo percutaneous externally-assembled laparoscopic surgery where one or more 3 mm instruments are added or substituted for conventional 5 or 10 mm trocars.

Full description

The investigators have previously published a study regarding the use of a new surgical paradigm (percutaneous externally assembled laparoscopy, or PEAL) in porcine and cadaveric models in order to allow laparoscopic surgery to take place with improved cosmesis and decreased pain while still allowing the use of larger instruments and maintaining instrument triangulation. The investigators now seek to study the use of these instruments in the human patients undergoing laparoscopic urologic surgery.

This will be a single-arm prospective internally-controlled study. Patients will undergo percutaneous externally-assembled laparoscopic urologic surgery where one or more 3 mm instruments are added or substituted for conventional 5 or 10 mm trocars. Multiple outcome measures (endpoints) will be measured including time to first opioid use, total inpatient opioid dosage, patient ranking of painfulness of each port site, duration of ileus, time to ambulation, length of hospital stay, presence of any intraoperative or postoperative complications, operating time, estimated blood loss, and other routine parameters collected in a prospective surgical study.

Enrollment

9 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients undergoing laparoscopic urologic surgery

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients unwilling to participate in the study
  • Patients unfit for laparoscopic surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

9 participants in 1 patient group

PEAL surgery
Experimental group
Description:
Patients will undergo percutaneous externally-assembled laparoscopic surgery
Treatment:
Procedure: PEAL surgery

Trial contacts and locations

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