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Effect of Cutting Blades for Total Knee Arthroplasty on Implant Migration

NCT01772589 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2018-02-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

There have been considerable efforts to control rising health care costs. One of the more recent developments is the practice of reprocessing single use medical devices. This practice has been shown to provide considerable savings for health care payers. Medical devices have been reprocessed in a number of different medical fields including Orthopaedic Surgery. One of the devices that has been reprocessed are the Precision Saw Blades from Stryker Inc. These saw blades are used during Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) surgery. The reprocessed Precision saw blades are Health Canada approved and are available at Capital Health.

Beyond the benefits to the environment and cost savings, the investigators do not know if the reprocessed saw blades work better, work worse or the same as non reprocessed saw blades. This study is designed to determine if the reprocessed saw blades used during a TKA work as well as a new saw blade.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

New saw blade

PROCEDURE

Reprocessed saw blade

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Glen Richardson

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Glen Richardson, MD · Capital Health, Canada

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-02-28
Primary Completion
2015-02-28
Completion
2015-02-28

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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