Monitoring and Treatment of Extremity Trauma for Mass Casualties in Difficult Contexts (SuTra²)

Alliance for International Medical Action

Status: Completed

Conditions: Traumatic Amputation; Wounds and Injuries

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01779011

SuTra² (Suivi et Traitement du

Details and patient eligibility

About

The prospective cohort study, SuTra2, assesses the functional and socio-economic status of patients who were operated on for a severe limb injury resulting in amputation or limb preservation 1 and 2 years after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Enrollment: 305 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients, with limb injuries due to the earthquake,
• Who underwent limb surgery, which ended up in limb amputation or limb conservation.

Exclusion criteria :

• Limb injury not related to the earthquake
• No surgery for the limb injury

Trial design

305 participants in 2 patient groups

A cohort post amputation

Description:

Those patients undergoing either traumatic amputation or surgical amputation of limb

A cohort post limb conserving surgery

Description:

Patients whose surgical management involved conservation of their injured limb