Active clinical trials for "Fractures, Open"

Local application of antibiotics directly to the traumatic wound is a promising treatment for the prevention of infection after open tibia fractures, which are a significant source of disease burden globally, particularly in low-income countries. This study aims to measure the effect of locally applied gentamicin on risk of infection for open tibial fractures in Tanzania. If proven effective, local gentamicin would be a highly cost-effective strategy to reduce complications and disability from open tibial fractures that could impact care in both high- and low-income countries.

Psychological factors such as stress, distress, anxiety, depression, and poor coping strategies may be associated with ongoing pain following injuries such as fractures. To study this relationship, patients will undergo cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which is designed to modify such thoughts with the goal of reducing ongoing pain and improving quality of life. The goal of this study is to determine if CBT, versus usual care, reduces the prevalence of moderate to severe persistent post-surgical pain (PPSP) over 12-months post-fracture in patients with an open or closed fracture of the appendicular skeleton, treated with internal fixation.

This research will involve a prospective study on infection rates after grade 1 or 2 open fractures in the skeletally immature pediatric population. There will be 3 arms: one dose intravenous cefazolin, 24 hours intravenous cefazolin, and 24 hours intravenous cefazolin plus 5 days of oral cephalexin.

Prospective registry and retrospective data collection study to assess the efficacy and safety of Vivigen Cellular Bone Matrix (Vivigen) in orthopaedic trauma patients who require bone grafting in the acute, delayed, non-union fracture as well as use in fusion procedure settings.

The purpose of this study is to help determine the best treatment for severe injures like open fracture wounds. Some broken bone injuries can be more likely to get an infection. It is mostly due to the way they were injured. Surgical site infection in the orthopedic surgery population is a big public health issue. Wound infections result in both longer length of hospital stay and total cost of care. This study will be using an antibiotic called Vancomycin or Tobramycin in a powder form.

This study is a prospective, randomized, controlled, double-arm, non-inferiority study that will be carried out in China. It aims to compare two implant systems (the research group uses surface-modified composite coated orthopedic implants, and controls group using conventional orthopedic implants) safety and effectiveness. A total of 240 patients were recruited. The recruited patients are randomly divided into groups at a ratio of 1:1 to ensure that the distribution of patients in the treatment group and the control group is consistent. Patients will receive clinical follow-up in the 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months postoperatively. The main indicator for evaluation is the postoperative infection rate, and the secondary indicators include the SF-12 scoring scale, EQ-5D patient questionnaire score, fracture healing, malunion, nonunion incidence in the 12th month after surgery, and skin and soft tissue complications Symptom incidence rate. The follow-up data will be used to determine the main safety and effectiveness of the new surface modified composite coated orthopedic implant system.

The proposed research aims to be a pilot feasibility study to evaluate intraoperative fluorescence angiography (IFA) as an aid for acute debridement in orthopaedic trauma.

Road traffic accidents (RTA) is the most common cause of open fractures of long bones, increase in RTA leading to increase of complex non-unions incidence. the Participants are usually undergoing multiple surgeries for healing or to eradicate infection, which in turn leading to loss of bone and soft tissues and require skin grafting, muscle pedicle graft or bone grafting. Sometimes the Participants end up with deformity, limb length discrepancy, joints stiffness, disuse osteoporosis and muscle atrophy after management

It is important to recognize the potential for renal injury and be cognizant of this during the management of complex trauma patients. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the necessity of aminoglycoside usage for patients with open lower extremity fractures. Hypothesis: adding aminoglycoside on top of cephalosporin in treating lower extremity fracture will make no significant difference in term of clinical outcomes when compared to cephalosporin alone.

This is a pilot prospective, observational study of patients with open or infected fracture evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of OCT, a light-based imaging modality that requires no drug or contrast agent.