Clinical trials: Damage Control Surgery
Cerebral Palsy, Muscle
How Are the Muscles Affected in Cerebral Palsy? A Study of Muscle Biopsies Taken During Orthopaedic Surgery.
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a motor disorder caused by an injury to the immature brain. Even though the brain damage does not change, children with CP will have progressively weaker, shorter and stiffer muscles that will lead to…
- Conditions
- Cerebral Palsy, Muscle, Muscle Contracture, Muscle Spasticity
- Trial name
- CPTDBiopsy (NCT05506228)
- Testing
- No intervention
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Eva Ponten
Peritoneal Dessication Damage and Inflammation, Peri-operative Hypothermia
Warm Humid Gas Insufflation for Appendix Removal by Minimally Invasive Surgery Warm Humid Insufflation for Appendix Removal by Minimally Invasive Surgery Trial (WARMIST)
In laparoscopic (key-hole) surgery, the use of cold dry carbon dioxide gas to inflate the abdominal cavity for the creation a clear operating field, results in damage to the cavity lining, known as the peritoneum.
- Trial name
- WARMIST (NCT01027455)
- Testing
- Fisher and Paykel Insuflow (MR 860) Surgical Humidification Device, Laparoscopic Appendicectomy
- Where
- New Zealand
- Volunteers
- 190 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Auckland, New Zealand