Trauma Injury
Conditions
Keywords
Orthopedics, Extremity fracture
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
PROCEDUREExtremity Surgery
Patients 18 years of age or older with high energy closed extremity fractures. Provision of informed consent.
Sponsors
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth College
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feasibility and acceptability of the EIT device | 20 minutes | 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. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
CONTACTHolly B Symonds
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORIda L Gitajn, MD
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Outcome results
None listed