Muscle Pressure in the Flank Position

Tissue Breakdown Clinical Trial

Official title: Muscle Pressure in the Flank Position

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Using healthy volunteers, participants will lay on an operating room table in various positions employed during kidney surgery. Using a pressure sensor mat, we hope to determine which areas of the body are subject to higher pressures. Using padding devices (foam, gel, water mattress)which are currently used in the operating room will be employed and measurements will be taken to determine which padding material and configurations is optimal to reduce the pressure to those body parts at risk for excessive pressure subject during laparoscopic surgery.

Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Tissue Breakdown

• NCT number: NCT00395980
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of California, Irvine
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2006
• Completion date: July 2007