Bioimpedance for Ortho Trauma

Dartmouth Health

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Trauma Injury

Treatments: Procedure: Extremity Surgery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06858488

STUDY02002529

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with high-energy extremity trauma will undergo imaging with an EIT device in the Emergency Department, Operating Room, Orthopaedic Clinic, and In-patient hospital rooms. The EIT device is an electrical impedance tomography system.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 years or older
• High energy closed extremity fracture
• Provision of informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Metatarsal fractures
• Injury to both lower extremities precluding contralateral imaging
• Presence of an implanted electronic device (e.g. pacemaker, vagal stimulator, deep brain stimulator) or electrodes or electrical wires.
• Currently pregnant, potentially pregnant, or lactating women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Extremity fracture

Experimental group

Description:

High energy closed extremity fractures

Treatment:

Procedure: Extremity Surgery