Status:
COMPLETED
Bacterial Control in Partial Thickness Burns Using Silver-containing Wound Dressings
Lead Sponsor:
University Hospital, Ghent
Conditions:
Burn Wounds - Partial Thickness (2nd Degree)
Eligibility:
All Genders
Up to 80 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This study is to compare the treatment with two different silver-containing wound dressings: aquacel AG hydrofiber versus acticoat burn dressing.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Burn wounds with flux values, measured by Laser Doppler Imaging, corresponding with expected healing time between 7 and 21 days, flux values between 200 and 1000 (red-pink or pink-yellow-green colour)
- Wounds treated with a hydrocolloid paste prior to LDI
- Possibility to follow the complete treatment schedule until wound healing and participation on complete follow-up schedule
- Informed consent
- Partial thickness burns with TBSE \< 40%
Exclusion
- Mean flux values \< 200 or \> 1000
- TBSA \> 40%
- Impossibility to debride necrotic skin prior to LDI measurement
- Wounds treated with any topical ointments or dressings other than hydrocolloid prior to LDI
- Not following the complete treatment schedule or missing some evaluations during the follow-up period
- Patient has any condition that seriously compromises the patient's ability to complete the study
- Patient has participated in another study using an investigational drug within the previous 30 days
- Patient has one or more medical condition(s)that in the opinion of the investigator would make the patient an inappropriate candidate for this study
- The plastic surgeon decides that surgery is necessary due to unusual circumstances
- Patient wish to decline from the study
- No informed consent
- Full thickness burns
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2006
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 31 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
100 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00343824
Start Date
November 1 2006
End Date
July 31 2010
Last Update
December 21 2022
Active Locations (1)
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University Hospital Ghent
Ghent, Belgium, 9000