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Evaluation Perioperative Nutrition on Donor Site Healing in Patients Undergoing Reconstructive Burn Surg

NCT00539097 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 38

Last updated 2012-06-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators hope to learn if taking a nutrition drink for a short time after surgery for an elective reconstructive burn injury improves donor site healing, muscle mass and scar maturation time (the point at which the redness, height and firmness of the wound has faded, flattened and softened, and no longer changes in appearance).

Conditions

  • Burn
  • Reconstructive Surgical Procedure

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Juven (Ross Products) protein supplement

Juven supplement oral x 3 weeks postop

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shriners Hospitals for Children

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Theresa M Mayes, RD,LD · Shriners Hospital for Children, Cincinnati, Ohio

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
24 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-06-30
Primary Completion
2007-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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