SFDI in High Energy Lower Extremity Fracture

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center56 enrolled

Overview

This is a non-randomized prospective study of 20 patients with high energy lower extremity fractures evaluating feasibility and acceptability of SFDI, a real-time optical imaging technology.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Trauma Injury

Interventions

Lower Extremity SurgeryPROCEDURE

Patients 18 years of age or older with high energy lower extremity fractures. Provision of informed consent.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 years or older * High energy lower extremity fracture * Provision of informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Upper extremity fracture * Metatarsal fractures

Locations (1)

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Feasibility and acceptability of the SFDI Imaging

The long-term objective for this research is to determine whether objective measures of perfusion through SFDI can be a predictive tool used in the ED, clinic or the operating room to determining when high-energy lower extremity fractures can safely undergo surgical fixation.

Time frame: 4 minutes or less

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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