Bacterial Control in Partial Thickness Burns Using Silver-containing Wound Dressings

Launched by UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, GHENT · Jun 21, 2006

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 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 Criteria:
• • 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