Recruiting

EIT

Sponsor:

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Code:

NCT06858488

Conditions

Trauma Injury

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Extremity Surgery

Study Details

Brief summary:

Patients with high-energy extremity trauma will undergo imaging with an EIT device in the Emergency Department, Operating Room, Orthopaedic Clinic, and In-patient hospital rooms. The EIT device is an electrical impedance tomography system.

Conditions

Trauma Injury

Study ID

NCT06858488

Start date

Mar 20, 2025

Status verified date

Jul, 2026

Completion date

Jul, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age 18 years or older
  • High energy closed extremity fracture
  • Provision of informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Metatarsal fractures
  • Injury to both lower extremities precluding contralateral imaging
  • Presence of an implanted electronic device (e.g. pacemaker, vagal stimulator, deep brain stimulator) or electrodes or electrical wires.
  • Currently pregnant, potentially pregnant, or lactating women

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Extremity fracture

High energy closed extremity fractures

Interventions

Extremity Surgery

Patients 18 years of age or older with high energy closed extremity fractures. Provision of informed consent.

Primary outcome measure

  • Feasibility and acceptability of the EIT device [ Time Frame: 20 minutes ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Holly B Symonds

603-653-9440Holly.B.Symonds@hitchcock.org

Locations

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Recruiting

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756

Contacts

Ida L Gitajn, MD

603-650-5000ida.l.gitajn@hitchcock.org

More Information

Sponsor

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Last update posted

Jul 22, 2026

Last verified

Jul, 2026

Keywords

  • Orthopedics
  • Extremity fracture

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on 2026-07-22.