Status unknownNCT04921826Updated Sep 2, 2021

Potential Causes of Retained Items During Surgery

An observational study in Foreign Bodies and Surgical Sponge, Retained, sponsored by Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University. Status unknown at 1 site in Saudi Arabia. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-09-02.

Sponsored by Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University · Observational

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Study type: Observational
Model: Other
Time perspective: Prospective
Enrollment: 400
Sex: All

Study summary

to understand and analyze the potential causes of retained items (sponge and instruments) during surgery, which include room preparations, initial count, adding sponges, removing sponges, first closing count, final closing count.

Conditions studied

Foreign Bodies
Surgical Sponge, Retained

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Foreign Bodies

29 studies on the registry are indexed under Foreign Bodies; 8 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 400 is above the median of 100 across 19 observational studies indexed under Foreign Bodies.

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Lead sponsor

Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University is the lead sponsor of 4 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible: Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible: All
Accepts healthy volunteers: No
Sampling method: Non-probability sample

Study population

an online survey will be send through cluster administration to operating room staff ,to answer voluntarily without compensation. informed consent was obtained. This study was exempt from review board approval at authors' institutions.

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Inclusion criteria

operating room staff of hail hospital cluster

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

none

Study design

Observational model: Other
Time perspective: Prospective
Enrollment: 400 participants (estimated)
Patient registry: No

Interventions

Otheronline survey
online survey

What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

study potential causes of retained item during surgery
to understand participant opinion about the potential causes of retained item which include :room preparation with needed operating room equipment according to the specialty, initial count of sponges and instruments, adding sponges by event recording in a chart, removing sponges by event recording in a chart, first closing count in a chart , final closing count in a chart.
Time frame: 20 days

Study locations

1 site

Hail Health Cluster
Hail, Other 11432, Saudi Arabia

References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026

ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Jun 2021 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2022, 12 months after the start.

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Registered: Jun 1, 2021
First posted: Jun 10, 2021
StartActual: Jun 10, 2021
Primary completionEst.: Jun 15, 2022
CompletionEst.: Sep 25, 2022
Last update: Sep 2, 2021

What these dates mean

Start.: When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.: When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.: When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.: Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.

No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 2, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

Registry details

Key details

Study ID: NCT04921826
Lead sponsor: Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University
Responsible party: mohammad bukhetan alharbi (associate professor, Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University) — Principal investigator
First posted: Jun 10, 2021
Start date: Jun 10, 2021
Primary completion: Jun 15, 2022 (estimated)
Completion: Sep 25, 2022 (estimated)
Last update: Sep 2, 2021

Study contacts

mohammad alharbi

principal investigator · imam mohamamd ibn saud islamic university

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug: No
FDA-regulated device: No

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