Single Incision Laparoscopic Appendectomy in the Community Utilizing Conventional Instruments

University of British Columbia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Appendicitis

Treatments: Procedure: Single Incision Laparoscopic Appendectomy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00925145

H09-00937

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is a move to "scarless surgery" and this achieved by doing laparoscopic abdominal surgery though a single small umbilical incision. A technique for laparoscopic appendectomy done through a single incision utilizing conventional instruments has been developed. The operative risk of the single incision approach is no different that the standard three incision laparoscopic appendectomy. The goal is to study the operative time, length of hospital stay, and complications from this operation.

Enrollment: 32 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all patients undergoing appendectomy for acute appendicitis

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy

Trial design

32 participants in 1 patient group

1

Treatment:

Procedure: Single Incision Laparoscopic Appendectomy