Status:

COMPLETED

Operatively Treated Open Pilon Fractures

Lead Sponsor:

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Conditions:

Open Pilon Fractures

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

A chart review will be performed to extrapolate information including sex, height, weight, date/time admitted to HMC, injury data, comorbidities, fracture pattern, antibiotic usage, surgical history, ...

Detailed Description

After patients are identified with the Orthopaedic Surgical Database, letters will be sent to those patients who meet inclusion/exclusion criteria informing them of the study and that they will be con...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients admitted to the Hershey Medical Center with a primary diagnosis of an open pilon fracture and surgically treated between 1/1/2000 and 12/31/2007.
  • Temporization of the fracture may be performed elsewhere or by other orthopaedists at the Hershey Medical Center. Definitive surgery must be performed by Dr.'s David Goodspeed, J. Spence Reid, or Robert Simpson.

Exclusion

  • closed pilon fracture or pathological fracture; definitive fracture fixation performed outside the Hershey Medical center or by a surgeon other than Dr.'s David Goodspeed, J. Spence Reid, and Robert Simpson; patient is diagnosed with active infection at the time of first surgery at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center; patient is less than 18 years of age at the time of definitive surgery;
  • patient is mentally compromised and unable to give consent;
  • does not cooperate with survey data acquisition; patient is deceased;
  • patient presented with significant ipsilateral leg fracture or injury at anytime within the time frame of the study.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 1 2008

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

April 9 2010

Estimated Enrollment :

37 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00689429

Start Date

May 1 2008

End Date

April 9 2010

Last Update

June 20 2017

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Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine

Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, 17033