Burns, Chronic Ulcer
Conditions
Keywords
Electrical stimulation, wound healing, Polarity current, Burn, Chronic ulcer
Brief summary
Skin lesions, such as chronic ulcers and burns, represent a serious public health problem due to high government costs, and scarce successful conservative treatments.There is a growing scientific literature on the use of electrotherapy in the process of wound healing, but in return there is a dearth of scientific studies on the use of various types of currents and the different parameters in the proposed treatments.
Detailed description
This project proposes the use of polarized currents to increase the speed of healing in chronic ulcers and donor sites in burn patients. Will be included 30 patients with chronic ulcers and 30 burn patients undergoing skin graft surgery, will be randomized into control and treated groups. For the ulcer chronic group treatment will be with 50 minutes high voltage and 10 minutes diadynamica current and the burn group only 50 minutes high voltage current.
Interventions
OTHERControl group
will be turn on the equipment, positioning the patient but no put intensity
OTHERTreatment group
This group will receive electrostimulation
Sponsors
University of Sao Paulo
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 59 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* all patients admitted to the rehabilitation center of Clinical Hospital with chronic ulcer, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto / USP, in the period between january 2010 and december 2011 * all patients admitted to the Burns Unit of Clinical Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto / USP, in the period between march 2011 and december 2012
Exclusion criteria
* Infection * weight below 16kg
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| clinical evaluation of the lesion | Two years | will be documented appearance of the wound |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| standard photographic records of the wounds and quantification by digital software | Two years | Assessment the wound area image for image j software and validate CAPAS software for the healing wound image by descriptors textures |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Expert in evaluating healing images for a score | Two years | Assessment to validate score in injury healing cutaneous |
Countries
Brazil
Outcome results
None listed