Knee Injury Decision

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

25 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-12-31

Study Completion Date

2016-10-31

Brief Summary

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At this time, there is no standardization for knee trauma care in children. Each physician is free to resort or not to radiography to verify or dispel bone fracture, depending on radiographic device availability. This decision is based on trauma severity, clinical features, and physician experience.

Knee traumatisms are a common reason of consultation. In emergency departments, radiographic use is widespread for those traumatisms, but not in private practice.

Most of those knee traumatisms includes soft tissue lesion, for which radiography gives no details. Yet, radiography exposes bone fracture which may require a specific orthopaedic care. Then, it seems beneficial to highlight simple and reproducible clinical criteria in order to identify severe knee traumatisms, requiring radiography to assess bone fracture.

Those criteria should have a sensibility close to 1, and the highest specificity. Such criteria could significantly decrease the number of radiography thus irradiation, emergencies waiting time, and consultation expenses without missing bone fracture.

Ottawa knee rules for adults are: age 55 years older, tenderness at head of fibula, isolated tenderness of patella inability to flex to 90°, inability to bear weight on 4 steps both immediately and in the emergency department. Presence of one of those criteria required front and profile radiography to assess bone fracture.

However, few studies have been conducted among children, and they do not confirm the use of those criteria targeting fracture screening. Data are contradictory and they do not allow concluding that such criteria could be of benefit for children. Moreover, studies only consider adults clinical criteria. This study would be the first to implement specific paediatric criteria, which make this study original.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Bone Fracture Knee Trauma

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age range from 1 to 17 years old included
* Knee traumatism (distal third of femur and proximal third of tibia/fibula)
* Traumatism not older than 7 days