Clinical Trial of a New Device for Real-Time Muscle Pressure Measurements in Patients With an Upper or Lower Extremity Fracture at Risk for Acute Compartment Syndrome
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- MY01 Inc.
- Enrollment
- 100
- Locations
- 5
- Primary Endpoint
- Ability to monitor in real time the continuous pressure readout from the compartment in remote locations via smartphone.
Overview
Brief Summary
Compartment syndrome remains a very serious complication of lower extremity trauma and/or procedural cases that involved lower or upper extremity surgery. This condition results in muscle death, chronic pain, infection, and possible amputation. Early diagnosis is essential to institute interventions to avoid complications. Unfortunately, the subjective pain of the patient remains the mainstay for diagnosis. A method or device is needed that would improve the investigator's ability to diagnose this potentially devastating condition. The purpose of this trial is to evaluate the safety and functionality of MY01, an investigational device that allows continuous monitoring of intracompartmental muscle pressure in patients at risk for developing acute compartment syndrome. This is a single centre, non-randomized, non-controlled, unblinded, prospective trial of the MY01 device. A cohort of 25 participants will be prospectively enrolled to document the performance of the device.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 16 Years to 65 Years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Adults age 16-
- •Fracture of the tibia, foot, forearm, femur, or humerus that is felt by the surgeon to have a reasonable indication that elevated intracompartmental pressure could occur in the patient.
- •Planned admission to hospital (to enable monitoring of compartment pressures)
- •Provision of informed consent to participate.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Frankly contaminated or infected wounds or fractures.
- •Clinical suspicion of acute compartment syndrome requiring urgent fasciotomy at time of presentation to study center.
- •Current or pre-existing neuropathy in the study limb.
- •Pregnant women.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Ability to monitor in real time the continuous pressure readout from the compartment in remote locations via smartphone.
Time Frame: 24-48 hours following device insertion.
At insertion of device the physician will complete a feedback questionnaire on the device, the participant will be assessed for adverse events, and routine assessment will be performed.
The change in intracompartmental pressure.
Time Frame: 24-48 hours following device insertion.
Routine assessments will be completed by healthcare personnel as per standard of care (the 6P's \[Pain, Paraesthesia, Pallor, Paralysis, Pulselessness, Poikilothermia\]), and compared against the pressure readout \[mmHG\] indicated by MY01's MicroElectroMechanical (MEMS) pressure sensor inserted at the afflicted location.
Clinical ease with which the MY01 device is able to be inserted into a compartment.
Time Frame: 24-48 hours following device insertion.
At device insertion, the physician will complete a feedback questionnaire, and routine assessment will be performed in compliance with the standard of care. As part of the feedback questionnaire, the physician will be asked to indicate on a sliding scale "How certain are you that the sensor is in the correction position?" \[1 = uncertain\] - \[5 = very certain\]. The scale, administered part of a Clinical Report Form (CRF) titled 'Physician Survey', measures the physicians subjective level of certainty that the device sensor was inserted correctly within a patients muscle compartment. A record of 5 should be considered a positive scenario, whereas a record of 1 should indicate a negative scenario.
Secondary Outcomes
- Adverse events associated with the use of the device.(24-48 hours following device insertion, and again during the final follow-up of the participant approximately two weeks after treatment.)
- Pain at insertion site.(24-48 hours following device insertion.)