NCT01126060

Efficacy of Fibrin Sealant to Reduce the Amount of Post-thyroidectomy Drain

Efficacy of Fibrin Sealant to Reduce the Amount of Postoperative Drain in Patients With Harmonic Scalpel-assisted Total Thyroidectomy With Anterior Compartment Neck Dissections

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 78 (actual)
• Sponsor: Samsung Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Fibrin sealant has been studied to reduce post-thyroidectomy drain and hospital stay as well. However, no strong evidence from well-designed clinical trials is available. Harmonic scalpel is a ultrasonic vibrating scissors which makes it easy to cut and coagulate the tissues, thus reducing op time and postoperative drain, which is important to minimize hospital stay. The investigators hypothesized that fibrin sealant combined with harmonic scalpel-assisted procedure could guarantee no-drain postoperative care in total thyroidectomy with anterior compartment neck dissection.

Conditions

• Thyroid Carcinoma
• Thyroidectomy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Usage of Fibrin sealant	Usage of 1 vial of fibrin sealant after hemostasis in total thyroidectomy with anterior compartment neck dissection
PROCEDURE	Thyroidectomy	surgical removal of bilateral thyroid glands

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-01-01
• Completion: 2011-01-01
• First posted: 2010-05-19
• Last updated: 2011-12-19
• Results posted: 2011-12-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea