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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Traumatic Knee Arthrotomy
• Interventions: Procedure: Saline Load Test

• Registration Number: NCT01073124
• Lead Sponsor: United States Naval Medical Center, San Diego

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-05
• Primary Completion: 2009-10
• Study Completion: 2009-10
• Study First Submitted: 2010-02-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-02-22
• Study First Posted: 2010-02-23
• Status Verified: 2016-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-08-17
• Last Update Posted: 2016-08-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• Individuals with diagnosis warranting elective knee arthroscopy

Exclusion Criteria

• 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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Dilute Methylene Blue Dye	Saline Load Test	1 ml methylene blue dye per 500 ml normal saline injected intraarticularly into the knee
Normal Saline	Saline Load Test	Normal Saline injected intraarticularly into the knee joint

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Volume (mm) injected at time of outflow	1 month

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Naval Medical Center San Diego; 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States