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Fast Track Recovery Knee Arthroplasty Project

NCT01551017 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2015-04-22

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Summary

Fast Track Recovery Arthroplasty Project is supposed to analyse a new medical method to accelerate patient's remobilisation process after total knee endoprostheses. The method, called c-treatment, is a computer-controlled cryotherapy (soothing cooling therapy) at which the device measures temperature at the affected site (the operated knee in the investigators investigation) and optimizes the cooling temperature. The optimized cooling therapy is supposed to reduce swelling and postoperative pain whereby patient's postoperative mobilization can be done earlier leading to a reduction of length of hospitalization.

To verify c-treatment's efficiency compared to conventional cryotherapy, patients are split in a test group and a standard group. The standard group is treated following the standard protocol at the Department of Orthopaedics Surgery Graz using cold packs (Fa. Dahlhausen, product code 93.000.00.042). Patient's in the test group receive c-treatment therapy following the study protocol.

All patients are instructed to fill in standardized questionnaires to evaluate social scores and pain scores preoperative as well as postoperative. The knee's swelling and range of motion as well as blood parameters monitoring the healing process are measured following the study protocol.

The comparison of these parameters between the standard and the test group is supposed to verify c-treatment's efficiency.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medical University of Graz

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mathias Glehr, MD · Medical University of Graz

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-12-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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