Vacuum Assisted Closure as a Treatment for Soft Tissue Injuries
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Official title
Vacuum Assisted Closure as a Treatment for Soft Tissue Injuries Sustained as a Result of Calcaneus, Tibial Plateau and Pilon Fractures
Brief summary
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This project is designed as a prospective, randomized, comparative study evaluating the use of a negative pressure vacuum device in treating soft tissue injuries and the surgical incision following open reduction and internal fixation of calcaneus, tibial plateau, and pilon fractures.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00582998
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 249 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
- Standard Wound Dressing Procedure
- Vacuum Assisted Closure Device Device
Procedure · Device
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 19 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2001
- Primary completion
- Feb 28, 2007
- Completion
- Feb 28, 2007
- Last update posted
- Jul 24, 2019
2001 – 2007
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Orthopaedic Trauma | Birmingham | Alabama | 35294 | — |
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- Last update posted Jul 24, 2019 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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