Efficiency of Intraoperative Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Monitoring for finding recurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroid surgery performed by Otolaryngology Residents

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Patient who has thyroid tumor or thyrotoxicosis whom will be treated by thyroid lobectomy, subtotal thyroidectomy, total thyroidectomy

• Registration Number: TCTR20191224001
• Lead Sponsor: Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Completion: 2019-10-30
• Study Start: 2019-12-24
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria
1.Age more than 18 years old
2.Patient who will be treated by thyroid lobectomy, subtotal thyroidectomy, total thyroidectomy
3.Patient can come to follow up after surgery

Inclusion criteria of the surgeon
1. The surgeon is a second year Otorhinolaryngology resident,
Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj hospital, Thailand.
2. The surgeon has done enough thyroid surgery under staff supervision
until passing the evaluation for standard thyroidectomy procedure by
the staffs before entering the study.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria
1.Preoperative vocal cord paralysis or paresis
2.History of neck surgery, radiation at head and neck region
3.Substernal goiter
4.Advance stage of well differentiated thyroid cancer (T4, tumor invasion or N > 1 clinical lymph node metastasis), poorly differentiated or anasplastic thyroid cancer
5.BMI >35 kg/m2
6.The patient that have contraindication of using succinylcholine, midazolam, fentanyl, inhalation agents
7.An unplanned neck dissection

Exclusion criteria of the surgeon
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Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
nerve identification time (minutes) 12 months Compare identification time between two groups

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
total operative time (minute),Prevalence of RLN injury 12 months compare operative time and prevalence of RLN injury between two groups