Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:16 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:16 AM
NCT ID:
NCT05339360
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Patient must be 18 or older
* Patient must have a signed EC-approved informed consent.
* Patient must have a femoral fracture (open, closed, monolateral, or bilateral) requiring surgical intervention or osteotomy and be eligible for fixation by intramedullary nailing. Patients with delayed treatment (initial treatment by external fixation due to swelling/ high energy trauma followed by definitive treatment by intramedullary nail) can also be included.
* Patient has been or is scheduled to be treated with the ZNN Bactiguard System Antegrade Femoral Nail
* Patient must be able and willing to complete the protocol required for follow-up
* Patients capable of understanding the surgeon's explanations and following his instructions
Exclusion Criteria:
Skeletally immature patients
* Medullary canal obliterated by a previous fracture or tumor
* Bone shaft having excessive bow or a deformity
* Lack of bone substance or bone quality, which makes stable seating of the implant impossible
* All concomitant diseases that can impair the operation, functioning or the success of the implant
* Insufficient blood circulation
* Infection
* Patient is unwilling to give consent.
* Patient is a vulnerable subject (prisoner, mentally incompetent or unable to understand what participation to the study entails, subjects with alcohol/drug addiction, known to be pregnant or breast feeding)
* Patient anticipated to be non-compliant and/or likely to have problems with maintaining follow-up program (e.g. patient with no fixed address, long-distance, plans to move during the course of study)
* Patients not expected to survive the duration of the follow-up program
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT05339360
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT05339360