CompletedNot Applicable

Trochanteric Fractures - How to Improve the Results of Reduction and Implant Positioning

Switzerland250 participantsStarted 2020-01-08

Plain-language summary

This prospective study (including patients with an intertrochanteric or subtrochanteric fractures type 31A1, 31A2 and 31A3) is to assess the effect of an educational intervention for operating surgeons with respect to an improvement of the quality of reduction and internal stabilisation of intertrochanteric fractures. A historic cohort of patients operated at the University Hospital Basel for an intertrochanteric fracture from 2014-2015 will be used for comparison.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients presenting with an intertrochanteric fracture type 31A1 or 31A2 or subtrochanteric fracture type 31A3 * Surgeon must have completed the teaching video on how to evaluate intraoperatively the fracture, the reduction and the implant positioning and complete the reduction algorithm documenting that all intraoperative steps have been correctly accomplished Exclusion Criteria: * Patients operated without adherence to the reduction algorithm * Patients operated by surgeons who did not attend the teaching session

What they're measuring

Shortening of the femoral neck (mm)

Timeframe: 6 months after hip surgery

Change of the shaft-neck angle (degree)

Timeframe: 6 months after hip surgery

Displacement of the calcar segment in the lateral view

Timeframe: 6 months after hip surgery

Central placement of the femoral neck screw (degree)

Timeframe: 6 months after hip surgery

Trial details

NCT IDNCT03875443

SponsorUniversity Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2021-12-31

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