Clinical Applications of a Joystick in Femoral Shaft Fractures

MGH Institute of Health Professions

Status: Completed

Conditions: Femur Shaft Fracture

Treatments: Device: "H" joystick; Procedure: Common reduction methods

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03417310

2015030024

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will use a new "H" joystick for reduction on patients with femur fractures to investigate the reduction time, operating time and bone healing status for the evaluation of the clinical application benefits of this joystick.

Full description

This study will design a new "H" joystick for reduction (which has received the national utility model patent) and will use this equipment on 80 patients (55 males, 25 females) with femur fractures to investigate the reduction time, operating time and bone healing status for the evaluation of the clinical application benefits of this joystick.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Femur shaft fractures

Exclusion criteria

• Not suitable to receive intramedullary nail treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

"H" joystick

Experimental group

Description:

Patients are treated with the "H" joystick on a traction table

Treatment:

Device: "H" joystick

Common reduction methods

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients are treated with common reduction methods on a traction table

Treatment:

Procedure: Common reduction methods