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Sensitivity Diagnosing Traumatic Knee Injuries With and Without Injection of Blue Dye Into the Knee Joint

NCT01073124 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2016-08-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if adding blue dye improves the saline load test, which is a way to detect a traumatic intraarticular knee injury by injecting normal saline into the knee and looking for outflow through the wound.

Conditions

  • Traumatic Knee Arthrotomy

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Saline Load Test

Intraarticular injection of dilute methylene blue dye (1 ml per 500 ml normal saline) or normal saline into the knee joint through a lateral suprapatellar injection site. Maximum injection of 180 ml.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Naval Medical Center, San Diego

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Paul D Metzger, MD · United States Naval Medical Center, San Diego

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-05-31
Primary Completion
2009-10-31
Completion
2009-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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