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Knee Swelling Under Use of Compression Stockings After Outpatient Surgery

NCT02096562 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 27

Last updated 2016-05-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Outpatients who undergo knee surgery are designated two different clinical study groups. Group A receives common wrapping after surgery to the first postsurgical day and will be provided with compression stockings for the following 10 days, while group B only receives common wrapping and will not be provided with compression stockings.

The investigators are going to investigate the effect of compression stockings on postsurgical swelling and formation of edema on outpatients.

Conditions

  • Knee Pain Swelling

Interventions

OTHER

Patients use compression stockings for 10 days after surgery

patients wear compression stocking for 24 hours in the first 2 days after surgery and for at least 8 hours at day 3-10 after surgery

OTHER

normal therapy - no compression stockings

the patients receive the common therapy according to S2 guidelines

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Rostock

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas Tischer, Prof. Dr. · OUK Rostock

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-03-31
Completion
2015-03-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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