External Fixator or Antibiotic-coated Plate in Severe Open Long Bone Fractures

ConditionFracture Related Infection

Trial statusNot yet recruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age18+

SponsorOluwasegun Aremu

About this trial

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

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Age ≥ 18yrs,

Gustilo-Anderson IIIA and IIIB open fractures,

involvement of any long bone fractures that can be fixed with either plate or uniplanar external fixation,

wound can be closed primarily, with skin graft or flap, or can heal secondarily

Disqualifiers

Patients with traumatic brain injury,

spinal cord injury,

severe burns,

1 long bone fractures,

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

antibiotic-coated plate
external fixator

Treatment groups

178 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Oluwasegun Aremu

Lead sponsor

University College Hospital, Ibadan

Sponsor institution

Orthopaedic Trauma Association

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov