Aabenraa, Denmark Clinical Trials

B Bamo Jalal, MD

Scandinavian Humeral Diaphyseal Fracture Trial

This pragmatic multicenter randomized controlled trial (RCT) includes adult participants with an acute humeral shaft fracture to compare surgical fixation of humeral shaft fracture to non-surgical treatment with early identification and treatment of delayed union by a patient-reported outcome after 52 weeks. The trial population of 287 participants The trial …

S Steffen H Bruun, MD

Effect of Single vs Multiple Prophylactic Antibiotic Doses on PJI Following Primary THA in Patients With OA

Aim: To compare the effect of one single dose versus multiple doses of prophylactic antibiotics administered within 24 hours, on the development of PJI in patients with osteoarthritis undergoing primary THA. The study is designed as a cross-over, cluster randomized, non-inferiority trial. All Danish orthopedic surgery departments performing primary THA …

Bicarbonate for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

This is an investigator-initiated, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel group, double-blind, superiority trial of sodium bicarbonate during adult in-hospital cardiac arrest. There will be 22 enrolling sites in Denmark. 778 adult patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest receiving at least one dose of adrenaline will be enrolled. The primary outcome is return …

G Gro Egholm, MD

A Study of Population and Sex-specific Troponin Cutoffs for Ruling Out Acute Myocardial Infarction

Acute myocardial infarction (MI) is defined as a rise and/or fall in cardiac troponins (cTn) with at least one value above the 99th percentile upper reference limit (URL) in the context of symptoms or clinical evidence of myocardial ischemia. The URL is based on measurements in a healthy reference population. …

H Henrik Wiggers

DANHEART (H-HeFT and Met-HeFT)

The present study is testing in a combined design to types of drugs in patients with chronic heart failure: 1) Hydralazine in combination with isosorbide dinitrate (BiDil) and 2) Metformin hydrochloride. The study is double blind, placebo controlled. The first hypothesis is that hydralazine in combination with isosorbide dinitrate can …

S Steffen H Bruun, MD

Effect of Single vs Multiple Prophylactic Antibiotic Doses on PJI Following Primary THA in Patients With a Fracture

Aim: To compare the effect of one single dose versus multiple doses of prophylactic antibiotics administered within 24 hours, on the development of PJI after surgery in patients undergoing primary THA due to an acute fracture or sequelae of proximal femoral or acetabular fractures. The study is designed as a …

The Nordic IBD Treatment Strategy Trial

Purpose To demonstrate that personalised therapy can be delivered to patients with IBD, by treating patients with an increased risk of poor disease course, defined by a serum protein signature at diagnosis, with a top-down treatment, and that this treatment strategy improves clinical outcomes. Objectives Primary objective: To assess if …

The Effect of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy on Wound Healing in Major Amputations of the Lower Limb

The socioeconomic costs of problematic and delayed wound healing following lower limb amputations are enormous to the society. Lower limb amputations is one of the longest known surgical treatments, but also one of the least investigated in the field of medical science. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) has emerged as …

Transabdominal Preperitoneal Inguinal Hernia Repair

The present study seeks to determine whether improved visual acuity and enhanced flexibility of the robotic platform results in a reduced surgical stress response and an improvement in indices of surgical outcome measures for simple and complex inguinal hernia repair

Open Versus Robotic-assisted Ventral Hernia Repair, Short and Long-term Outcome

In this randomized clinical trial, the investigators will compare the conventional open repair for hernia in the anterior abdominal wall with the robotic-assisted approach. 110 patients with midline abdominal wall defects will be randomized to either open or robotic-assisted surgery. The investigators will examine short and long-term complications through follow-up …