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Pulmonary Artery Energy Sealing for VATS Procedure

NCT01871597 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2013-09-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) anatomical lung resections (lobectomy or pneumonectomy) provide an effective minimally invasive treatment for stage 1 lung cancer.

Currently, a minority of anatomical pulmonary resections are being performed by VATS (15%) (6). The technical difficulty and danger of VATS lobectomy is related to pulmonary arterial branch manipulation and this is the main limitation of many thoracic surgeons regarding the adoption of VATS lobectomy. We believe that if we can decrease the manipulation required by the surgeon on the pulmonary arterial branch, we can make these procedures safe and therefore more prevalent for anatomical pulmonary resections.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Pulmonary Artery Energy Seal

Pulmonary artery energy seal devices such as: Ligasure, Harmonic scalpel, Enseal, Thunderbeat, Unipolar and Conventional bipolar Cautery, metal clip or Hem-o-lok clip will be used to seal the artery(ies)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal

    collaborator OTHER

  • Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Moishe Liberman, MD, PhD · Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-12-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2013-07-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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