Clinical trials: Laparoscopic Surgical Procedure
Appendicitis
Laparoscopic Versus Open Appendectomy? Let the Patient Decide
This protocol examines choice where it pertains to choosing between two standard methods for appendectomy, laparoscopic or open procedures, and the affect that "cost" of the appendectomy has upon choice.
- Trial name
- NCT01738750
- Testing
- Cost Information Included
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Bladder Cancer
Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Extended Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection for Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder
The goal of this clinical research study is to evaluate how many lymph nodes are left behind after robotic-assisted removal and are then found after a wider incision is made, in patients who are having their bladder removed for…
- Trial name
- NCT00963859
- Testing
- Robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 11 people
- Sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Surgical Simulation Education
Assessment of the Transferability of Skills From Robotic to Laparoscopic Simulation Platforms
This is a randomized controlled trial that will randomize 40 surgical skill naive medical students to practice on a robotic simulator or laparoscopic simulator after first completing a baseline evaluation on both surgical…
- Trial name
- NCT02370407
- Testing
- a laparoscopic simulator (Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS), VT Medical Inc, Waltham, MA), Mimic da Vinci robotic simulator
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University