Bioimpedance for Ortho Trauma

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center30 enrolled

Overview

Patients with high-energy extremity trauma will undergo imaging with an EIT device in the Emergency Department, Operating Room, Orthopaedic Clinic, and In-patient hospital rooms. The EIT device is an electrical impedance tomography system.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Trauma Injury

Interventions

Extremity SurgeryPROCEDURE

Patients 18 years of age or older with high energy closed 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 closed extremity fracture * Provision of informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Metatarsal fractures * Injury to both lower extremities precluding contralateral imaging * Presence of an implanted electronic device (e.g. pacemaker, vagal stimulator, deep brain stimulator) or electrodes or electrical wires. * Currently pregnant, potentially pregnant, or lactating women

Locations (1)

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Feasibility and acceptability of the EIT device

The primary objective of this work is to explore whether changes in impedance measurement associated with EIT are associated with soft tissue injury and readiness for surgical intervention. EIT is a technique which introduces a small amount of electrical current into biologic tissue through an array of electrodes and measures the change in signal to generate images related to the physiology of that tissue.

Time frame: 20 minutes

Central Contacts

Holly B Symonds

CONTACT

603-653-9440 Holly.B.Symonds@hitchcock.org

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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