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Is Pressurized Irrigation an Effective Alternative to Swabbing for Wound Cleansing?

NCT01885273 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 256

Last updated 2013-06-24

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Summary

The study is to examine the effectiveness of cleansing wound with pressurized irrigation method compared with conventional practice of swabbing on the wound healing and infection of acute and chronic wound, and to evaluate the patient's physical symptoms related to wound, patient's satisfaction to cleansing method, and cost of materials used between the two groups.

Patients with acute or chronic non-sutured wounds as well as being eligible to exclusion criteria will be recruited and randomly assigned to be cleansed using either: pressurized irrigation method (experimental group) or swabbing method (control group).

244 patients will be recruited in the study. This will take place in four community health centres run by the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong. The wounds of participants will be cleansed using the assigned method for a six week period. The clinic staff nurse is responsible for the ongoing assessment of the wound.

Wound assessment will be undertaken at enrolment and upon healing of the wound or at the end of six-week period if the wounds have not healed. Demographic data and information related to the wound -wound size +/- wound volume, wound culture swab, and symptoms -wound discomfort, pain and odour will be collected at enrolment. Information related to the wound and subjective measures of patient satisfaction -feeling of cleanliness, liking, and of staff satisfaction -feeling user-friendliness, accessibility, cleanliness, liking to the cleansing method using VAS will be assessed at completion of treatment. A list of cost measurements for the wound cleansing would also be captured.

Conditions

  • Acute and Chronic Wounds

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Pressurized irrigation method

The pressurized irrigation device is modified from using a special Syringe, connected to Gomco's Vacuum/Pressure Pump Model 309 that generate steady irrigation stream at pressure between 4 to 15 psi that is recommended to be safe and effective pressure for wound cleansing.

PROCEDURE

Swabbing wound cleansing method

All patients in control group had wounds cleansed with swabbing technique using forceps and cotton wool (in sterile dressing pack)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    collaborator OTHER

  • Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Suzanne So-Shan Mak, Master · Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-08-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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