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The Efficacy of "MediHoney" to Facilitate Catheter Exit-Site Surgical Wound Healing

NCT01230489 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 13

Last updated 2018-08-17

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Summary

To evaluate the efficacy of honey as a post surgical exit site care process to promote healing and prevent infectious bacterial colonization of newly created exit sites. It has been shown in the medical literature that honey has properties that are conducive to healing and the prevention of infection. In one study it was demonstrated that in urethral injury in the rat treated with honey the injury healed with none of the usual formation of fibrous tissue seen in such healing processes, that there was no reduction in the luminal diameter usually seen, and that the cells lining the urethra were uncompromised in any way, i.e. totally normal and healthy. We feel that if an exit site can be healed quickly with good normal tissue being developed that the patient will have a much better chance to keep that exit healthy reducing time, cost, and disruption of lifestyle. Other positive aspects of honey are it has the low pH required for good healthy tissue healing, it works in the presence of wound fluids, and it has never been shown to produce a resistant bacterial strain.

Conditions

  • Renal Failure

Interventions

BIOLOGICAL

MediHoney

In this group a Medihoney 2 x 2 will be used in place of the standard dry 2 x 2 currently used as the wound dressing. Also all indentations of the wound will be filled with Medi-Honey ointment prior to the application of the dressing.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Dialysis Clinic, Inc.

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • University of Missouri-Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Harold L Moore, MA · University of Missouri, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-11-28
Completion
2016-11-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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