Radical Cystectomy: Can We Improve Our Surgical Technique With the Ligasure Impact Tissue-Sealing Device?

Vanderbilt University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Hemostasis; Bladder Cancer

Treatments: Device: Stapling device during radical cystectomy; Device: Ligasure tissue sealing device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00802633

081018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluate the utility/safety of an FDA-approved tissue sealing device during radical cystectomy as compared to an FDA-approved stapling device.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Muscle invasive bladder cancer
• Male/Female gender

Exclusion Criteria:

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Stapling device

Active Comparator group

Description:

Efficacy of stapling device during radical cystectomy

Treatment:

Device: Stapling device during radical cystectomy

Ligasure Device

Active Comparator group

Description:

Efficacy of ligasure tissue sealing device during radical cystectomy

Treatment:

Device: Ligasure tissue sealing device