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NCT ID: NCT04226482 Completed - Safety Issues Clinical Trials

Review of Efficacy of Used ultraSonic Energy Device

REUSED
Start date: May 27, 2019
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Single-use medical instruments are intended by the manufacturers for single-use only or for single-patient-use only. Nevertheless, single-use instruments are being reused more than once in many countries around the world. The reasons are mainly economic in developing countries and environmental in developed countries. Concerns are being raised regarding reused instruments sterility and efficacy. Since there is paucity of evidence on safety of multiple use of single-use instruments in surgery, we decided to conduct a clinical study comparing the same surgical procedure performed with new versus reused surgical instrument. We decided to study laparoscopic appendectomy which is a simple and the most common emergency surgery. Instrument under the scrutiny is ultrasonic scalpel which uses high-frequency ultrasound vibration for coagulating and cutting tissue. In the studied period of time, all eligible patients with acute appendicitis will be randomized in two groups, first having surgery with new device and the second having surgery with reused device. Removed appendix will be analyzed for lateral thermal damage and the patients will be followed-up for one month for potential differences in clinical outcomes like pain-killers consumption, length of stay and postoperative complications.

NCT ID: NCT01367678 Completed - Airway Morbidity Clinical Trials

Mucosal Pressure of the Laryngeal Mask Airway Supreme Versus the i-Gel in Paralyzed Anesthetized Female Patients

Start date: May 2011
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

In the following randomized non-crossover study, the investigators test the hypothesis that directly measured mucosal pressure differ between the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) Supreme and the i-Gel in paralyzed anesthetized females. Thirty females aged 19-65 years were randomly allocated to receive either the size 4 LMA Supreme or i-Gel for airway management. Microchip sensors were attached to the LMA Supreme/i-Gel at four locations corresponding to the A, base of tongue; B, distal oropharynx; C, hypopharynx; and D, pyriform fossa. Insertion success rate and oropharyngeal leak pressure were also measured.