Tourniquet Use in Hallux Valgus Surgery

Clinique Saint Jean, France

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Hallux Valgus

Treatments: Other: No tourniquet; Other: tourniquet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06680518

2024-A01589-38

Details and patient eligibility

About

Prospective, single-center, randomized interventional clinical trial of tourniquet use in hallux valgus surgery. Patients will be their own controls.

Enrollment: 44 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients over 18 who has been informed and has signed the consent form
• Patient to be operated on for bilateral hallux valgus with no difference in the procedure performed between the 2 feet, the deformity must not differ by more than 10° (angle M1P1) between the 2 sides.
• Surgery planned on the same day for both feet

Exclusion criteria

• Arthritic hallux valgus requiring arthrodesis
• Inflammatory pathology (rheumatoid arthritis, etc.)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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44 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm with tourniquet

Active Comparator group

Description:

The surgeon will use the tourniquet as usual.

Treatment:

Other: tourniquet

Arm without tourniquet

Experimental group

Description:

The surgeon will operate without the aid of a tourniquet

Treatment:

Other: No tourniquet