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Reducing Operative and Post-operative Morbidity in Living Kidney Donors With the Airseal System

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Yale University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pain

Treatments

Device: Conventional pressure
Device: Valveless recirculating insufflation (VTI)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
Industry

Identifiers

NCT02262039
1405013985

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if the Airseal System will reduce post-operative pain and reduce the need for narcotics in laparoscopic living kidney donor surgeries.

Full description

Our hypothesis is that Airseal Insufflation System will provide reduced mean operative insufflation pressure and operative mean ETCO2, resulting in improved post-operative pain control and improved operative safety.

The Airseal System has demonstrated decreased variability in intra-abdominal pressure, less post-operative shoulder pain, lower mean ETCO2 and reduced narcotic pain administration. These metrics have been demonstrated in human subjects undergoing gynecologic, urologic and bariatric procedures. The established benefits in a human model provide a foundation for translating this technology to living kidney donors. The advantage lies in the ability to improve pain-related outcomes in this population, which translates into increased living donation; the single solution to reduce mortality for patients suffering from end-stage kidney disease.

Enrollment

41 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Any living donor who has been approved to donate a kidney is eligible to participate.

Exclusion criteria

  • none

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

41 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional Pressure
Active Comparator group
Description:
Conventional Insufflation with 15mmHg target pressure
Treatment:
Device: Conventional pressure
Low Pressure (VTI)
Experimental group
Description:
Valveless recirculating insufflation (VTI) with 10mmHg target pressure
Treatment:
Device: Valveless recirculating insufflation (VTI)

Trial contacts and locations

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