NCT01413802

Intra Operative Continuous Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring During Thyroid Surgery and Interpretation of the Post-operative Voice Quality in Relation to the Electromyography Data Obtained During Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

During thyroid surgery the laryngeal recurrent nerves (and for this reason the voice quality) are at risk. Therefore intra operative continuous neuromonitoring could help to prevent harm to these nerves. Electromyographic data (EMG values) are collected during surgery (1). In the postoperative follow-up period detailed voice analysis is performed (2): subjective auditive perceptive evaluation and videostroboscopy. Analysis and comparison of (1) and (2) will be performed in order to find out if we can find a predictive correlation between the EMG data (1) and the voice quality (2).

Conditions

• Thyroid Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Continuous nerve monitoring	Continuous nerve monitoring is performed during thyroid surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-02-28
• Completion: 2013-03-05
• First posted: 2011-08-10
• Last updated: 2022-12-29

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Belgium