Participants will be the adult patients who were seen at the Chronic Ulcers Clinic of the Botucatu Medical School during the study period, presenting an age of 18 years or older, chronic venous ulcer (open ulcer over 6 weeks) with clinical signs of infection superficial.
Conditions
Interventions
All 54 participants included in the study will undergo basal time (T0) to clean the ulcer with saline 0.9% and to the superficial surgical debridement of the bed of their ulcer (s). This procedure wil
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Sponsors
Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants will be the adult patients who were seen at the Chronic Ulcers Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu during the study period, presenting an age of 18 years or older, chronic venous ulcer, open ulcer over 6 weeks, with clinical signs of infection superficial.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Ulcers of other etiologies (peripheral arterial disease, haematological causes, neoplastic, infectious, etc); Infected ulcers, that is, when associated with erysipelas, cellulitis or lymphangitis due to the need for systemic antibiotic therapy; Have a history of hypersensitivity to the treatments proposed. Have venous ulcer associated with peripheral arterial disease that will be characterized when the ankle-arm systolic index is less than 0.8 and / or absence of distal pulses, mainly tibial. Patients will be assessed clinically and with a script to characterize venous ulcer.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Rate of surface-infected ulcers (or critical colonization) according to the criteria of mnemonic rule NERDS in 30th day (T30); ;Rate of biofilm ulcers: evaluated in the 30th day (T30) by sonication methods and confocal electron microscopy. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Clinical improvement of the UV in the 30th day (T30) evaluated by the PUSH scale; ;Decreased ulcer area by planimetric method;;Rate of healing clinically evaluated at 30th day (T30) by observation of total epithelization without presence of crusts at the venous ulcer site. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactTaís Saranholi
Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
Outcome results
None listed