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Use of Traditional Curved Iris Scissors or the Wuennenberg Modified Curved Iris Scissors for Skin Surgery

NCT04413383 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 147

Last updated 2021-08-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Every year thousands of dermatologic surgery procedures are performed at the University of Missouri Department of Dermatology, including Mohs Micrographic Surgery (MMS), Excisions, and biopsies. Surgery is known to cause anxiety for patients and with these procedures performed under local anesthetic on awake patients', the sights, sounds, and smells experienced during the procedure can lead to an increase in their anxiety or affect their overall perception of the experience. From performing and assisting with dermatologic surgery the noise associated with the use of the traditional curved Iris scissors provokes an increase in patient awareness to the procedure resulting in increased anxiety, triggering of the vasovagal response, and expressions of annoyance by the patient. However, the modified curved Iris scissors make almost no noise. The Investigators hypothesize that if patients were given the comparative experience of both types of curved Iris scissors during dermatologic surgery, then they will choose the modified curved Iris scissors because the lack of noise will be perceived as more pleasant experience. Our objective is to perform a prospective, single blinded, randomized controlled trial to determine how the noise of traditional curved Iris scissors vs the silent Wuennenberg modified curved Iris scissors affects patients during dermatologic surgery.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Traditional Curved Iris Scissors

Aesculap Curved Iris Scissors

OTHER

Wuennenberg Modified Curved Iris Scissors

Modified Silent Curved Iris Scissors

OTHER

Comparative Experience of Traditional and Wuennenberg Modified Curved Iris Scissors

Patients experience both types of scissors

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Missouri-Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • John P Wuennenberg, MD · University of Missouri-Columbia Dermatology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-12-21
Primary Completion
2021-07-14
Completion
2021-07-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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