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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to evaluate if applying a lidocaine topical solution before wounds treatment decreases the pain of the procedure in comparison with placebo solution.
The purpose of this study is to compare how well two products, Active Leptospermum Honey (ALH) (MEDIHONEY® Gel) and Collagenase (Santyl®), in removing the nonviable (non living) tissue.
Randomised Controlled Trial of PICO (a portable Negative Pressure Wound Therapy) versus standard care in patients with chronic and sub-acute wounds. Sample size 100 patients to investigate Time to healing, health economic and patient reported outcomes.
Chronic soft tissue wounds of the lower limbs are painful and debilitating condition that significantly reduce the quality of life of the patient. They often do not respond to conservative treatments or advanced wound managements. Focused and defocused extracorporeal shock wave therapy can be a viable alternative therapeutic strategy. The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of defocused extracorporeal shock wave treatment on chronic soft tissue wounds of the lower limbs, in terms of the rate of wound healing and pain control.
The primary aim is to determine if this new technique will detect and identify bacteria in the blood sooner than standard blood cultures or identify patients who may be septic without growing bacteria in their cultures. These will be correlated with the data collected from medical records on presumed sepsis. These results will be linked to data concerning infection that will be available as part of routine care including blood counts and other laboratory values that would be part of the routine medical care such as a white blood cell count. The earlier the bacteria are identified and the appropriate antimicrobials are administered the better the patient outcome.
The purpose of the study is to use a collagen matrix embedded with amniotic stem cells to speed up the maturation and integration of the collagen matrix in the wound bed and shorten total time needed for wound healing.
The investigators have recently developed an innovative optical molecular imaging platform (called PRODIGI) based on high-resolution fluorescence and white-light technologies in a hand-held, real-time, high-resolution, non-invasive format. PRODIGI offers a non-contact means of obtaining instantaneous image-based measurements of diagnostically-relevant biological and molecular information of a wound and surrounding skin tissues for the first time and could have significant impact on improving conventional wound care, management, and guidance of intervention. In preliminary preclinical testing, the investigators have discovered that when wounds are illuminated by violet/blue light, endogenous collagen in the connective tissue matrix emit a characteristic green fluorescent signal, while most pathogenic bacterial species emit a unique red fluorescence signal due to the production of endogenous porphyrins. Therefore, with autofluorescence imaging, no exogenous contrast agents are needed during imaging, making this approach particularly appealing as a diagnostic imaging method for clinical use. In the context of this study, PRODIGI is used to assess wound complications in patients diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma and treated with pre-operative radiotherapy. Both pre- and postoperative external beam radiotherapy combined with limb salvage surgery have similarly high rates of local control in the management of extremity soft tissue sarcoma. The main acute side effect associated with preoperative radiotherapy is wound healing complications. Wound care overall is a major clinical challenge and presents an enormous burden to health care worldwide. The objective of this clinical study is to determine if PRODIGI coupled with an optical tracking platform has clinical utility in identifying, quantitatively measuring and longitudinally tracking bacterial imbalance on the patient's intact skin surface at the location of the surgical resection site for adult patients with lower limb soft tissue sarcoma treated with preoperative intensity-modulated radiation therapy and limb salvage surgery and, further, to investigate whether this bacterial imbalance is related to radiotherapy dose and wound complications.
Background: The wound healing promoting effect of negative wound pressure therapies (NWPT) takes place at the wound foam interface. Implementation of bioactive substances at this site represents a major research area for the development of future NWPT devices. Methods: Wound healing kinetics of pressure ulcers treated by vacuum assisted closure devices with or without the implementation of a thin interface of poly-N-acetyl glucosamine nanofibers (sNAG) was studied in a prospective randomized clinical trial.
Effectiveness of a surgical adhesive on wounds found in Emergency Medicine.
This is a survey study that will be given to patients who have been prescribed a topical compound for pain management, wound care or scar care or to patients who have been requested to do a urinary drug test (UDT) by their provider. The initial survey for pain management, wound care, scar care or UDT will be given to the patient by their providers during their office visit.