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UnknownNCT04837950
Changes in Pleural Cavity Volume and Surgical Exposure
Changes in Pleural Cavity Volume and Surgical Exposure Through Suture Retraction of the Diaphragm During VATS Procedures
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 40 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Odense University Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The investigators want to investigate if a diaphragmatic traction-suture affects the pleural cavity volume, as well as improves visual overview of a surgical field during minimally invasive thoracic surgery.
Detailed description
A visually good surgical field is essential in performing safe and optimal dissection of anatomical structures during Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS). A number of patients referred to VATS-surgery appear with an elevated diaphragm, reducing visibility and complicating safe surgical techniques, thus entailing conversion from VATS into an open Thoracotomy. Some surgeons handle the decreased visibility due to an elevated diaphragm by increasing the amount of ports during VATS. Others have benefited from attaching a traction suture on the diaphragmatic posterior tendinous part, thus flatting the diaphragmatic dome when the suture is tightly retracted through the camera-port. It turns out that most thoracic surgery clinics are not familiar with this technique. There are also no articles regarding this topic in medical literature. We want to investigate if the diaphragmatic traction-suture affects the pleural cavity volume, as well as improves visual overview of a surgical field during minimally invasive thoracic surgery.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | Diaphragmatic traction-suture | Measurement of pleural cavity volume before pulling the diaphragmatic traction-suture Measurement of pleural cavity volume after pulling the diaphragmatic traction-suture |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2020-09-29
- Primary completion
- 2021-04-30
- Completion
- 2021-05-31
- First posted
- 2021-04-08
- Last updated
- 2021-04-13
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Denmark
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04837950. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.