Status:

TERMINATED

The Efficacy of "MediHoney" to Facilitate Catheter Exit-Site Surgical Wound Healing

Lead Sponsor:

University of Missouri-Columbia

Collaborating Sponsors:

Dialysis Clinic, Inc.

Conditions:

Renal Failure

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-90 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

To evaluate the efficacy of honey as a post surgical exit site care process to promote healing and prevent infectious bacterial colonization of newly created exit sites. It has been shown in the medic...

Detailed Description

The exit site (ES) of any transcutaneous device, or foreign body, through the skin presents as the site most vulnerable in terms of device survival. With the large numbers of catheters in use in chron...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients requiring dialysis due to loss of kidney function
  • Patients choosing Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) for treatment
  • All PD patients having an indwelling PD catheter placed

Exclusion

  • Patients younger than 18 years of age
  • Prisoners
  • Patients with mental defect
  • Veteran Administration patients

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2011

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

November 28 2016

Estimated Enrollment :

13 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01230489

Start Date

January 1 2011

End Date

November 28 2016

Last Update

August 17 2018

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University of Missouri Department of Medicine; Dialysis Clinic, Inc.

Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65201