Single Incision Laparoscopic Appendectomy in the Community Utilizing Conventional Instruments

Appendicitis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Single Incision Laparoscopic Appendectomy in the Community Utilizing Conventional Instruments

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00925145
• Other study ID #: H09-00937
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 18, 2009
• Last updated: June 1, 2011
• Start date: July 2009
• Est. completion date: December 2010

Study information

• Verified date: June 2011
• Source: University of British Columbia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Health Canada
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 32
• Est. completion date: December 2010
• Est. primary completion date: October 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• all patients undergoing appendectomy for acute appendicitis

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnancy

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Appendicitis

Intervention

Procedure:
• Single Incision Laparoscopic Appendectomy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	The Richmond Hospital	Richmond	British Columbia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of British Columbia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada,