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Additional Hyperbaric Oxygen After Lower Extremity Amputation

Additional Hyperbaric Oxygen After Lower Extremity Amputation - A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
120 (estimated)
Sponsor
Oslo University Hospital · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years – 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effect of additional hyperbaric oxygen therapy after lower extremity amputation. The patients will be randomized after amputation to either a treatment group receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or control group.

Detailed description

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been used to treat hard to heal wounds for decades. Amputation, especially distal lower extremity amputations have the same problem with healing and patients often need to be re-amputated more proximally. In these patients oxygen levels are often the decisive factor. Providing additional oxygen under hyperbaric conditions will increase tissue oxygen concentration sufficient for the amputation stump to heal. This will give the patients a more distal amputation with better condition for ambulation.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
PROCEDUREHyperbaric oxygen therapyBreathing 100% oxygen for 30+30+30 min at 2,4 ATA. in a multiplace hyperbaric chamber. Total of 30 sessions

Timeline

Start date
2018-07-04
Primary completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2026-12-31
First posted
2018-07-20
Last updated
2025-03-30

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Norway

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03594344. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.