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Bundling and Unbundling the Laparoscopic Electrosurgery Cord With the Camera Cord

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01707095

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Official title

Bundling and Unbundling the Laparoscopic Electrosurgery Cord With the Camera Cord: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Brief summary

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Electrosurgery is used in virtually every laparoscopic operation performed. Capacitive coupling is a common electrosurgery complication. Previous work biopsying the skin adjacent to laparoscopic port sites is a method to determine if capacitive coupling thermal injury to the skin occurs during a laparoscopic operation. \[Willson et al. Surg Endosc (1997) 11:653\] In our previous study, COMIRB 09-0049, we found thermal injury at 55% of umbilical trocar site skin biopsies and 35% of epigastric trocar site skin biopsies following laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Our benchtop research compared bundling of the camera cord with the active electrode cord versus unbundling of the camera cord with the active electrode cord and found a 59% decrease in heat generated in the unbundling experimental set-up. \[Jones, EL, Robinson, TN, et al. Surg Endosc (2012) Epub.\] This study plans to compare thermal injury which occurs during two commonly used operating room set-ups. First, laparoscopic cholecystectomy with bundled camera/active electrode cords. And second, laparoscopic cholecystectomy with unbundled camera/active electrode cords. The primary outcome is the incidence of thermal injury at the skin adjacent to the camera port site (the umbilical port) that will be diagnosed by histology.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01707095
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
84 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Aug 31, 2012
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2013
Completion
Dec 31, 2013
Last update posted
Jul 16, 2014

2012 – 2014

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of Colorado Hospital Aurora Colorado 80045

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