Clinical trials: Laparoscopic Surgical Training
Laparoscopic Surgery
Laparoscopic Skills Acquisition Using an AI-enhanced Game-based Simulation Tool Compared With a Laparoscopic Simulator Box Trainer
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether an AI-enhanced, game-based laparoscopic simulation tool can improve laparoscopic skills training and help increase surgical capacity in surgical trainees and other healthcare…
- Trial name
- CAMELs-RCT (NCT07276022)
- Testing
- AI-enhanced game-based simulation tool (Laptitude), Laparoscopic simulator box trainer (SurgTrac)
- Where
- 3 sites in Guatemala, India and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 157 people
- Sponsor
- University of Edinburgh
Surgical Training
Laparoscopic Training With and Without Robotic Assistance for Surgical Internes: a Randomized Study
The primary objective of this study is to compare two groups of gynecologic/urologic/visceral internes in terms of the time required to perform a laparoscopic surgical intervention (nephrectomy) on an animal model (pig).
- Trial name
- LAPRA (NCT02888158)
- Testing
- Robotic assistance, Pelvic Trainer
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 34 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
Obesity
Design and Validation of a Simulation-based Training Curriculum for Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery
Laparoscopic bariatric surgery is an advanced laparoscopic procedure with a potential for significant morbidity and mortality along the early part of a surgeon's learning curve.
- Trial name
- NCT01610466
- Testing
- Laparoscopic bariatric surgery ex-vivo training curriculum
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Simulator-based Medical Skill Training
Video Game Experience and Warm-Up Effects on Laparoscopic Skills Among Medical Students
"In surgical practice, alternative training methods are being investigated to enhance laparoscopic skills. The potential correlation between video game playing and technical performance improvements raises the question of whether…
- Trial name
- V-LAP (NCT07837388)
- Testing
- Surgical Simulator, 10 minute exercice of videogame
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidade de Passo Fundo
Basic Laparoscopic Skills Training
Comparison of an Inexpensive Tablet-based Laparoscopic Box Trainer With a Standard Box Trainer
Training is of great importance in laparoscopy. There are different commercially available trainers which are quite expensive and are used by trainees only inside the hospital.
- Trial name
- NCT02491710
- Testing
- Training on low-cost box trainer, Training on standard box trainer
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Vienna
Pulmonary Complication
Effect of Prone Position Training on Pulmonary Complications in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
Colorectal cancer is a common digestive tract tumor in China. At present, laparoscopic surgery has become the classic operation of colorectal cancer surgery compared with the traditional open abdominal surgery.
- Trial name
- NCT06001411
- Testing
- Prone Position Training, control group
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 140 people
- Sponsor
- Min Su
Education, Simulation
Developing a Curriculum to Teach Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
Although a significant amount of work has been done to validate simulators as viable systems to teach technical skills outside the operating room, the next necessary step is to integrate simulator training into a comprehensive…
- Conditions
- Education, Simulation, Technical Skills Training, Laparoscopy
- Trial name
- NCT01371136
- Testing
- curricular training
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 25 people
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto
Gynecologic Disease
Traditional Versus Virtual Reality for Surgical Skills for ObGyn Residents
This study will verify if a comprehensive laparoscopic curriculum using virtual reality demonstrates skills transfer to the operating room, compared to the traditional teaching method.
- Trial name
- SIMUTEC (NCT03395821)
- Testing
- Conventional training, Virtual Reality+conventional training
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Colonic Carcinoma, Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy
Standardizing Right Hemicolectomy for Colon Cancer
A surgical intervention might be highly variable amongst surgeons and centers. This variability has a potential relevance concerning clinical outcomes.
- Conditions
- Colonic Carcinoma, Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy, Standardisation, Training
- Trial name
- Right (NCT04889456)
- Testing
- Implementation standardised laparoscopic right hemicolectomy with proctoring, Implementation standardised laparoscopic right hemicolectomy without proctoring
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 930 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Medical Education
Generative AI-Assisted Personalized Feedback for Laparoscopic Skill Learning in Medical Undergraduates
Laparoscopic training involves learning to control surgical instruments while viewing movements on a screen. Feedback can help learners identify technical problems and plan further practice, but providing individualized guidance…
- Trial name
- AI-T-LAP (NCT07903467)
- Testing
- Generative AI-Assisted Personalized Feedback, Structured Template-Based Feedback
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yang Xiaodong
Resident Surgical Training
Video Feedback Versus Verbal Feedback
The long term goal of our research is to develop a curriculum for Obstetrics and Gynecology resident physicians that regularly employs use of video assessment to improve surgical skills.
- Trial name
- NCT02948595
- Testing
- Video feedback followed by structured verbal feedback, Structured verbal feedback followed by video feedback
- Volunteers
- 19 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of New Mexico
Educational Problems
Comparing Proficiency of Laparoscopic Vaginal Cuff Suturing After Laparoscopic Training in Surgically Naive Students
Surgically naive premedical and medical students were trained on two different laparoscopic simulation trainers, then tested on the same vaginal cuff suturing model.
- Trial name
- NCT04524988
- Testing
- Laparoscopic Simulation Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 49 people
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Minimally Invasive Surgery Basic Skills
Goal-directed MIS Simulation Training With the LTB-Curriculum Prior to First Operations on Patients: Study Protocol for a Multi-centre Randomized Controlled Validation Trial (NOVICE)
Background: Laparoscopic surgical procedures have become increasingly established in operative medicine. They require special motor, haptic, and spatial-visual skills to perform the interventions safely and effectively.
- Trial name
- NOVICE (NCT03040544)
- Testing
- LTB-Curriculum, Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
Cognitive Load, Performance
Training Using Immersive Virtual Reality
In this study, the investigators examine the cognitive load (CL) and performance of a laparoscopic procedure in immersive virtual reality and controlled virtual reality in a randomized, controlled setup.
- Trial name
- NCT03721094
- Testing
- Immersive virtual reality
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation
Ovarian Diseases
4K Versus 3D Total Laparoscopic Bilateral Oophorectomy: Tools in Comparison
Evaluate whether the 4K laparoscopic vision system can provide an advantage in performing bilateral oophorectomy procedures for benign conditions carried out by trainee surgeons compared to 3D laparoscopy
- Trial name
- TOLSTOY (NCT06750003)
- Testing
- 3D versus 4K laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
- Volunteers
- 22 people
- Sponsor
- Azienda Sanitaria-Universitaria Integrata di Udine
Gall Bladder Disease
Operating Room Outcomes After Resident Training on a Virtual Reality Simulator
The purpose of this study is to compare outcomes of patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy before and after a laparoscopic training curriculum was implemented.
- Trial name
- NCT00459472
- Testing
- laparoscopic training curriculum
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Gallstones
Effect of Virtual Reality Training by Novices on Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in a Porcine Model
This study proposes evaluation of an educational tool, a laparoscopic virtual reality simulator. The purpose of this study is to determine whether training on the LapSim Simulator transfers to improved laparoscopic…
- Trial name
- NCT00460980
- Testing
- Virtual reality laparoscopic simulator training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Uterine Fibroid, Uterine Bleeding
Can 3D Laparoscopy Improve Surgical Performances in Surgeons in Training?
Due to the inconclusive results on the benefits of 3D laparoscopic system present in literature, this prospective randomised pilot study aims to assess if the operative time of total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) for benign…
- Conditions
- Uterine Fibroid, Uterine Bleeding, Uterine Prolapse
- Trial name
- NCT04209036
- Testing
- 0° 3D laparoscopy high-definition camera(Olympus Winter & IBE GMBH, Hamburg - Germany)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 22 people
- Sponsor
- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Laparoscopy
Comparison of the Effectiveness of 2D Versus 3D Basic Laparoscopic Skills Training
The aim of this study is to find out whether basic laparoscopic skills training (FLS tasks) on a standard pelvic trainer using conventional 2D visualization is at least equally effective in terms of skills improvement compared to…
- Trial name
- NCT03763903
- Testing
- 3D training, 2D training
- Where
- Austria
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Vienna
Education, Laparoscopic Surgery
Comprehensive Laparoscopic Curriculum for Medical Students
Laparoscopic surgery has become the standard approach to a vast variety of surgical procedures. Due factors such as 2D- to 3D conversion, reduced tactile sensation, amplification of tremor and fulcrum effect of the abdominal…
- Trial name
- NCT01857180
- Testing
- Curriculum
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- Unity Health Toronto