Active clinical trials for "Femoral Fractures"

This project was intended to observe the handover of trauma and orthopaedic patients at a district general hospital in the UK. Following the implementation of a standard operating protocol, the handover of patient information improved including neck of femur fracture patients significantly. The study can therefore be utilised by other similarly structured departments to improve the handover process, thereby improving patient safety.

In this study, the investigators analyze a consecutive series of patients operated for pathological subtrochanteric femur fracture to describe survival and reoperation rates after surgery and to identify risk factors for death. Moreover, the investigators include a cohort of patients with non-pathological subtrochanteric fractures for comparison.

This study aimed to identify the risk factors and complications associated with mortality in elderly patients with femoral fracture after a fall from the ground level.

The fracture of the upper extremity of the femur (FESF) is one of the most common fractures in traumatology. In France, FESF affects more than 65,000 individuals per year and could involve up to 150,000 people per year by 2050, due to the increase in life expectancy of the population. The main risk factors for the occurrence of ESF are: age, gender, osteoporosis, undernutrition, gait and balance disorders. The main risk factors for death identified by the French Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Geriatrics after surgery for ESF are: a delay between the trauma and surgery of more than 48 hours, poorly tolerated preoperative anemia or a hemoglobinemia of less than 8 g/dl, absence of antibiotic prophylaxis, postoperative acute renal failure, and discontinuation of antiaggregant treatments in the case of coronary disease. Post-operative Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is one of the risk factors for mortality after surgery for ESF. AKI is an impairment of normal kidney function, and in general, AKI is a major issue in the management of patients undergoing surgery. In the short term, it increases the length of stay of patients, and the number of admissions to continuing care. AKI increases post-operative mortality by more than 50%. However, because of the complications associated with vascular filling, the use of vasoconstrictor drugs, such as ephedrine, phenylephrine, and especially norepinephrine, is increasingly common. Compared with other catecholamines, norepinephrine has been shown to be more effective in increasing cardiac output. Moreover, unlike bolus administration of ephedrine or phenylephrine, which favor the occurrence of blood pressure peaks and valleys, norepinephrine, administered as a continuous infusion, allows blood pressure to be maintained in a narrower range. The challenge is to implement a strategy to reduce their frequency. Intraoperative arterial hypotension is one of the risk factors on which investigators can intervene thanks to the "preventive" administration of noradrenaline in continuous infusion, started before or immediately after the induction of anesthesia. However, the "preventive" use of norepinephrine may favor the occurrence of AKI in hypovolemic patients (fracture and surgery-related bleeding, prolonged fasting) by reducing renal blood flow. Our primary objective is to compare the risk of AKI occurrence during a "preventive" norepinephrine administration strategy with a target MAP ≥65 mmHg compared with that observed in response to a vasoconstrictor-only administration strategy in response to the occurrence of arterial hypotension episodes. Secondary objectives are to evaluate the potential interactions of this preventive strategy with other risk factors for postoperative AKI.

This observational study is a collection of clinical and imaging data of patients with a femoral shaft fracture treated by nails. The aim of this research is the contribution of the EOS imaging system in the quantification of malunions.

Early fixation of unstable fractures of the femur, pelvis, and acetabulum reduces some complication rates. However, in patients with multiple injuries, the optimal treatment of skeletal trauma may be affected by severe injury to the head, chest, or abdomen. The relationship between associated injury severity and the timing of definitive management of unstable fractures is not well-understood. The practice of "early total care," early definitive fracture management, has been criticized by some, who have suggested that additional hemorrhage with surgery may be associated with a deleterious systemic inflammatory response. The alternative extreme of "damage control orthopedics (DCO)" has been recently proposed as a means of providing provisional stability of major skeletal injury, generally through external fixation. It is speculated that DCO will diminish the potential for systemic compromise. However, the need for further (definitive) surgery on a delayed basis, and the potential additional complications and costs associated with this strategy are controversial. The investigators' goals are to define which injuries or parameters warrant delay of definitive orthopaedic care, and to determine what time interval for fracture fixation promotes optimal patient outcome. The investigators will assess the effects of fracture fixation on head injury, chest injury, abdominal injury, mortality, complications, patient outcomes, and costs.

The purpose of this multi-center prospective clinical outcomes study is to determine validity and safety of the pediatric locking nail for femoral fracture management in children with open physes.

The fracture of the proximal femur is a common traumatic pathology in patients aged over 70 years, associated with a mortality of 20 to 30% a year. The care is delayed emergency. During this wait, the occurrence of heel pressure ulcers is regularly found, despite wearing antiescarres slippers. Mobilization, source of pain, is also problematic. 759/5000

The goal of this observational study is to learn about the relative position of femoral nerve in relation to the femoral artery in patients scheduled for femoral fractures using ultrasound scanning. The classical description of femoral nerve is that it lies immediately near to artery, but it is not always true. The nerve lies at a varying distance from the artery. The main question it aims to answer are: • Is the age sex and Body Mass Index affect the relationship between femoral artery and nerve?

The purpose of this study is to monitor severe pain for femur fracture after treatment with paracetamol IV or OR.