NCT01073124

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

Sensitivity of the Saline Load Test With and Without Methylene Blue Dye in the Diagnosis of Traumatic Knee Arthrotomies

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: United States Naval Medical Center, San Diego · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-05-01
• Primary completion: 2009-10-01
• Completion: 2009-10-01
• First posted: 2010-02-23
• Last updated: 2016-08-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States