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The Effect on an Ionic Silver Dressing in Head and Neck Patients With Malignant Fungating Wound

NCT00813631 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2009-05-19

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Summary

Background. Malignant fungating wounds(MFW) are caused by cancerous cells invading skin tissue, which exhibit increased bacterial burdens that not only result in a negative physical impact (odour, exudates, pain, and infection) on patients, impairing their quality of life, but they also increase treatment costs. A systematic review of the effectiveness of that the silver-releasing dressing in the management of infected chronic wounds can help enhance control of wound bed infection and inflammation, tissue management, moisture balance, and protect wound edge. However, few studies have examined the effects on people with MFW.

Hypothses In this study that the hypothesized that cancer patients in the ionic silver dressing group will perception higher quality of life compared to patients in the control group who receive non-ionic silver dressing. In addition, we hypothesized that cancer patients who also receive ionic silver dressing will have lower level of symptom distress at end of study compared to patients in the control group receive non-ionic silver dressing care.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

silver-releasing dressings

Experimental group are accepted primary dressing the AQUACEL Ag. control group are provided with the AQUACEL on the wound surface. Wound specialist or primary nurses undertaking wound care are informed by inclusion criteria that the treatment shall be adhered to during the two-week study period.All wounds are cleansed with sterile saline prior to assessment and dressing application.The sterile, non-woven sodium carboxymethylcellulose primary AQUACEL Ag with 1.2% ionic silver.Each secondary dressing is covered a sterile gauze.Dressings are changed between daily assessments when judged necessary.Patients attended the wound ward weekly for treatment evaluation. All participating clinics used the same wound management guidelines and data collection forms.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • We-Yu Hu · National Taiwan University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2009-05-31
Completion
2009-11-30

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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