Sensitivity Diagnosing Traumatic Knee Injuries With and Without Injection of Blue Dye Into the Knee Joint

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Traumatic Knee Arthrotomy

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine if adding blue dye improves the saline load test, which is a way to detect a traumatic intraarticular knee injury by injecting normal saline into the knee and looking for outflow through the wound.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01073124

Run by

United States Naval Medical Center, San Diego

People needed

60

Starts

2008-05-01

Expected to finish

2009-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-08-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Individuals with diagnosis warranting elective knee arthroscopy

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnant women
• Decreased knee range of motion (flex < 125, ext <0)
• Active infection of knee joint
• history of or current intraarticular knee malignancy
• history of open traumatic injury of the knee

Where it is running

• Naval Medical Center San Diego — San Diego, California, United States

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