Force Sensor Study

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Laryngeal Disease, Post-operative Pain, Tongue Injury

In brief

This research is to understand more about the forces that are involved on the tongue and other oropharyngeal structures during laryngeal surgery. This information will be used to determine if these forces can affect outcomes (pain, numbness, taste, etc) and whether factors such as procedure type, surgeon experience (i.e. resident, fellow, attending), and choice of surgical equipment affect these forces. This information may be used to reduce these forces and prevent these issues from happening during certain laryngeal surgeries. For the first 50 patients, force measurements will be taken and correlated to outcome measures . Surgeons will be blinded to the force measurements intra-operatively. For the next 50 patients, surgeons will be given force measurements in real-time intra-operatively allowing adjustments to be made. The impact of this adjustment on outcomes will be determined.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07434583

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

100

Starts

2026-01-02

Expected to finish

2027-01-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-25

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• >18 years old with
• undergoing laryngeal surgery with direct laryngoscopy

You may not qualify if…

• Prior history of tongue dysfunction such as glossectomy (hemi or total) or hypoglossal nerve injury
• Patient inability to follow up after initial procedure

Where it is running

• University of California San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States (enrolling)

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