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Trial of Abscess Drainage Techniques

NCT02545946 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3

Last updated 2019-02-20

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Summary

Comparing the outcome of traditional incision and drainage with a larger skin incision with or without gauze packing of cutaneous abscess in pediatrics versus a new minimally invasive incision and drainage with two small incisions and a vessel loop transversing the incisions to keep them open.

Conditions

  • Cutaneous Abscess

Interventions

DEVICE

vessel loop

using the vessel loop to hold the place of the surgical wound that is made during I\&D

OTHER

traditional I&D with or without packing

abscess will be drained with a traditional I\&D with or without packing (as deemed appropriate by ER doctor)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Milan Nadkarni, MD · Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-06-24
Completion
2016-07-07

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