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The Use of Electrical Stimulation by Capacitive Field in the Repair of Skin Burns and Quality of Life

NCT01882140 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2013-06-20

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Summary

The high incidence of burn injuries and mortality and morbidity as well as the high economic impact associated with this type of injury justifying the need to develop new technologies for the treatment of burn patients. Electrical stimulation for wound healing is a resource that has been increasingly used in routine physical therapists, but has the disadvantage of needing means of wet contact between the electrode and injury. The other resource used for therapeutic healing is conventional electrical stimulation of low intensity for capacitive field, a technique of physical therapy intervention not commercially available in Brazil. This new technology seems to have significant physiological effects in tissue repair and has been used for the treatment of chronic wounds which healed with difficulty. The objective is to analyze the effects of electrical stimulation of low intensity for capacitive field in healing skin burns. Patients from both genders aged over 18 years who have burns, will be evaluated and treated at the Emergency Unit of the Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo. The stimulation will be initiated within 24 hours after surgery to perform the graft and will be held daily for 60 minutes during the patient's stay or until complete healing of the skin. The electromagnetic field will be placed on the care of the burned area and / or the donor skin graft, not interfering with departmental procedures. Will be performed photographic record standardized wound by a digital camera, and then quantified by a computer program. Expected to reduce the period of hospitalization and thus lowering the cost of treatment, and the possibility of improving the quality of life of patients.

Conditions

  • Burns
  • Wound Healing

Interventions

OTHER

Electrical Stimulation by Capacitive Field

OTHER

Electrical Stimulation by Capacitive Field Placebo Sham

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rinaldo Roberto de Jesus Guirro, PHD · University of Sao Paulo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-11-30
Completion
2015-02-28

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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