NCT04623346

Orthopaedic Conservative Treatment in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 262 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Prof. Dr. Cemil Tascıoglu Education and Research Hospital Organization · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a one centered retrospective study. Tendency for surgical interventions in the pre-pandemic period was reduced to protect surgical team and patients. The investigators aimed to find out the answer to the following question: will conservative treatment be the shining star in the post pandemic period?

Detailed description

The researchers compared the treatments performed for fractures during the Covid 19 pandemic period with the treatments performed in the prepandemic period. For this purpose, they tried to measure the effectiveness of the treatments according to clinical scoring by forming 2 groups.

Conditions

• Ankle Fractures
• Proximal Humeral Fracture
• Wrist Fracture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Observation for study group	Patients with Weber B-type Ankle fractures, extraarticular wrist fractures and proximal humerus fractures were followed with conservative manner( cast or sling)

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-11
• Primary completion: 2020-11-01
• Completion: 2020-12-01
• First posted: 2020-11-10
• Last updated: 2020-11-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)