Assessment of Clinical Outcomes in Closure of Deep Neck Space Infection Incisions

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Deep Neck Space Infections

Treatments: Procedure: neck incisions closed at bedside at the time of drain removal under local anesthesia; Procedure: standard treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04286087

HSC-DB-19-1029

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if closure of deep neck infection incisions at the time of extraoral drain removal has any impact on rates of reinfection and to determine if this treatment will have any impact on scar formation and qualitative measures of pain or impact on quality of life during the post-operative healing period.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• deep neck space infection
• who require a conservative unilateral submandibular neck incision to access affected deep fascial neck spaces

Exclusion criteria

• pregnant females
• cognitively impaired individuals
• deep neck space infections which require bilateral neck incisions, large neck apron incisions, or placement of negative pressure therapy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Investigational Arm

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: neck incisions closed at bedside at the time of drain removal under local anesthesia

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: standard treatment