Evaluation of the Ability to Detect Bowel Gas During Laparoscopic Surgery

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Intestinal Perforation

In brief

This study will determine the ability of the device to draw a small amount of gas from an insufflated abdomen during laparoscopic surgery and accurately detect if gaseous content from the bowel is present.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02679118

Run by

Dan E. Azagury

People needed

8

Starts

2016-02-01

Expected to finish

2016-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-08-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 - 60 years old with the diagnosis of morbid obesity, who qualifies for laparoscopic gastric bypass surgical therapy, and has elected to undergo laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery.
• Receiving care in the Stanford Hospital General Surgery Bariatric Surgery Clinic under the care of Dr. Dan Azagury
• The patient is scheduled for laparoscopic roux en y gastric bypass surgery, with Dr. Azagury.
• Willing and cognitively able to sign informed consent.

You may not qualify if…

• Lack of or inability to provide informed consent.
• Less than 18 years of age or greater than 60 years of age
• Planned deviation from the standard laparoscopic gastric bypass operation
• Conversion intra-operatively from a laparoscopic gastric bypass to an alternative laparoscopic surgical operation or to an open gastric bypass operation.
• Enrollment in another device or drug study that may confound results.

Where it is running

• Stanford University — Stanford, California, United States

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