NCT05653687

Total Hip Arthroplasty: Fluoroscopy vs Freehand

A Randomized, Monocentric Investigator-initiated Clinical Investigation Comparing Fluoroscopy Versus Freehand in Total Hip Arthroplasty

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 84 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to compare total hip arthroplasty intervention executed with or without the use of intraoperative fluoroscopy in terms of positioning of the hip prosthesis. The comparison will be made on post-operative follow-up X-ray performed as per clinical practice, in order to verify if intraoperative fluoroscopy provides better prosthesis components positioning or not.

Conditions

• Intraoperative Fluoroscopy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Intraoperative fluoroscopy	Fluoroscopy is a medical procedure that makes a real-time video of the movements inside a part of the body by passing x-rays through the body over a period of time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-22
• Primary completion: 2026-03-01
• Completion: 2026-03-01
• First posted: 2022-12-16
• Last updated: 2025-08-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland