Management and Short Term Outcome of Traumatic Wounds in the Emergency Department

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05510362

Acronym

SUTURES

Enrollment

3000

Registered

2022-08-22

Start date

2022-08-08

Completion date

2025-12-30

Last updated

2026-07-15

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Conditions

Wound Heal

Keywords

wounds, superinfections, stitches

Brief summary

Identify the risk factors for complications as well as study the evolution of wounds sutured in the emergency room towards complications such as superinfections, necrosis, disunity of the stitches linked to inadequate initial care.

Detailed description

All traumatic injuries should be considered contaminated upon presentation to the emergency room. This is why the main objective of this study was to describe the attitude of patients towards their wounds, to identify the risk factors for complications as well as to study the evolution of sutured wounds in the emergency room towards complications such as superinfections, necrosis, disunity of stitches linked to inadequate initial treatment. This is a prospective, observational, monocentric study carried out in the emergency services of the Fattouma Bourguiba hospital in Monastir.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

1 Years to 90 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients who presented to the ambulatory emergency circuit of the EPS Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir having as main reason for consultation an acute suturable wound.

Exclusion criteria

* Wounds requiring surgical treatment * Septic wounds * Chronic lesions * Vascular wounds * Patients who did not consent to the protocol.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Evolution of the wound and the healing period.	day 10	After discharge from ED patients were called back in order to know information about the Suture complications(infection, release of stitches, hematoma, etc.)

Countries

Tunisia

Contacts

STUDY_DIRECTORBel Haj Ali A Khaoula, MD

CHU Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir, service des urgences

Outcome results