Free Flap Microcirculatory Monitoring Correlates to Free Flap Temperature Assessment

Hannover Medical School (MHH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Flap Monitoring

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01235299

Kraemer002

Details and patient eligibility

About

In case of free flap failure, time is of utmost importance as salvage rates have been reported to be inversely related to the time interval between the onset of ischemia and its clinical recognition. Consecutively, monitoring of free flaps remains of major importance. Currently, combined Laser-Doppler and Spectrophotometry is available to determine microcirculation of free flaps in reconstructive surgery as a scientific method of reliable assessment of flap perfusion. The investigators thought to analyze the correlation of free flap skin temperature and free frap microcirculation as an accurate tool of postoperative flap monitoring.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 16 and 65 years

Exclusion criteria

• soft tissue inflammation or osteomyelitis, peripheral arterial occlusive disease, vasculitis, chronic kidney or liver disease, cardiac dysfunction, arterial hypotension and any type of vasoactive medication, i.e. ß-blockers, calcium channel blockers, nitroglycerin or equal.

Trial design

54 participants in 3 patient groups

Healthy subjects

Subjects suffering from Diabetes mellitus

Subjects suffering from peripheral arterial occlusive disease