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Fish Skin Compared to Cadaver Skin as Temporary Cover for Full Thickness Burns

NCT03984331 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5

Last updated 2022-07-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Objectives and rationale: Optimal burn management involves removing all the dead or burned tissue as early as feasible and cover with an autograft called split thickness skin graft (STSG) taken from the patient. This procedure creates a new wound on the patient and sometimes, when the burn covers very large portion of the patient body, there is a lack of healthy skin to use for this purpose. Under those circumstances, donated cadaver skin is used as a temporary coverage until the patient´s own donor site wound has healed enough to be used again.

The proposed clinical study aims to determine if treatment with fish skin is an alternative to cadaver skin as a temporary coverage for debrided full-thickness burns prior to STSG in terms of autograft take, time to heal, quality of healing (scarring), pain and adverse effects.

Conditions

  • Burns

Interventions

DEVICE

Fish skin

One out of two adjacent burn sites of 10-20 cm x 7cm surface area will be randomized to receive fish skin as early cover. Each patient thus serves as his/her own control. After 7 +/- 3 days the burn site will receive a meshed split thickness skin graft.

DEVICE

Cadaver skin

One out of two adjacent burn sites of 10-20 cm x 7cm surface area will be randomized to receive cadaver skin as early cover. Each patient thus serves as his/her own control. After 7 +/- 3 days the burn site will receive a meshed split thickness skin graft.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • MedStar Health

    collaborator OTHER

  • Kerecis Ltd.

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Jeffrey W. Shupp, MD · Medstar Health Research Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-14
Primary Completion
2021-06-08
Completion
2021-09-21
FDA Device
Yes

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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