NCT02163200

Changes of Pressure on Soft Tissue Before and After Total Hip Replacement to Prevent Bedsores

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assuta Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients candidates for total hip replacement are, generally elderlies and have hip pain, we will check if the pressure to the soft tissue changes before and after operation using a tapet with pressure sensors sending the information to specific software.

Detailed description

one hundred Patients 60 years old and more will be considered for this study, both sexs, that have schedule for elective unilateral total hip replacement and have not bedsores previously. All the data will be collected by FSA software, classified in an excel table. A crossover study will be performed and analyzed by a paired test.

Conditions

• Transient Arthropathy of Hip

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2014-10-01
• Completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2014-06-13
• Last updated: 2016-03-29