Status:
COMPLETED
Outcome for Patients With War-Associated Extremity Wound Infection
Lead Sponsor:
Karolinska Institutet
Collaborating Sponsors:
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Conditions:
Wounds and Injuries
Eligibility:
All Genders
Brief Summary
Extremity wounds and fractures constitute the majority of war-associated traumatic injuries, both for civilians and combatants. War-associated injuries are often contaminated with foreign material, le...
Detailed Description
Armed violence has occurred intermittently in northwestern Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan since the beginning of the 1980s. In 1981 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) opened a h...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients that have received treatment for war-associated extremity wounds
- Patients that present at the hospital within 72 hours of injury
- Patients with valid data on baseline wound status.
Exclusion
- • Patients that are re-admitted during the study period, i.e. patients that received treatment during the study period and are later re-admitted will only be counted as one patient.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 27 2010
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 9 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
843 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03463720
Start Date
September 27 2010
End Date
May 9 2012
Last Update
March 13 2018
Active Locations (1)
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International Committee of the Red Cross hospital
Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan