RECRUITING

Bioimpedance for Ortho Trauma

Description

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.

Conditions

Study Overview

Study Details

Study 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.

A Pilot Study on the Technical Feasibility of an Electrical Impedance Tomography Device for Soft Tissue Injury Following High Energy Extremity Fractures

Bioimpedance for Ortho Trauma

Condition
Trauma Injury
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Lebanon

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Age 18 years or older
  • * High energy closed extremity fracture
  • * Provision of informed consent
  • * 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

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center,

Ida L Gitajn, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Study Record Dates

2027-06