NCT04197505

Application of Forward-looking Infrared for the Identification and Evaluation of Fractures in the Acute Trauma Setting

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The overall objective of this study is to (1) determine whether thermal imaging can be used during an acute trauma patient's secondary or tertiary survey to identify injury sites with an underlying fracture, and to (2) investigate whether thermal imaging can predict those patients whose fractures will result in a non-union.

Detailed description

Human subjects will be enrolled into the study from NYU Langone Health and Bellevue Hospital Center. When orthopaedic surgery is consulted for management of a fracture, the patient will be offered enrollment into the study. The collected data will be assigned a letter and number associated for references with the patient's age, type of fracture, and time since original injury to thermal imaging scan. If any patient receives a thermal imaging scan at their initial injury evaluation, then he or she will also receive thermal imaging scans at all follow-up appointments to track changes in temperature over the healing process. No obtunded or unresponsive patients will be enrolled into the study. The goal will be to have to thirty patients enrolled into both acute fracture and non-union arms of the proposal for a total of sixty subjects. Age, gender, ethnicity, smoking status, medical history, and surgical history will be recorded for future confounding analysis.

Conditions

• Acute Fracture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	FLIR E95 camera	Video will be recorded during the thermal reading for later computer analysis. The following variables will be analyzed: (1) the difference between the mean temperature between the injured and healthy extremities, (2) the difference between the maximum temperatures of both the injured and healthy extremities (ΔTmax), and (3) the difference between the area covered by each isotherm in both the injured and uninjured extremities (Δpix). FLIR software tools and MATLAB software will be used for the analysis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-01
• Primary completion: 2024-07-01
• Completion: 2024-07-01
• First posted: 2019-12-13
• Last updated: 2021-10-11