Trials / Not Yet Recruiting
Not Yet RecruitingNCT06193330
External Fixator or Antibiotic-coated Plate in Severe Open Long Bone Fractures
Use of Antibiotics-cement Coated Plate in the Treatment of Gustilo-Anderson Type III Long Bone Fractures in Low- and Middle-income Countries vs External Fixation: A Multi-centre Randomized Control Trial
- Status
- Not Yet Recruiting
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 178 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Oluwasegun Aremu · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of the study is to assess whether infection rate is reduced with use of antibiotic-coated plate in severe open tibial fractures compare to use of external fixators
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | antibiotic-coated plate | A plate for fixing long bone fractures is coated with antibiotics cement prepared in theatre |
| PROCEDURE | external fixator | external fixators are applied to participants with severe long bone fractures |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2024-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2026-02-14
- Completion
- 2026-12-31
- First posted
- 2024-01-05
- Last updated
- 2024-01-05
Locations
2 sites across 1 country: Nigeria
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06193330. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.