Bandage Contact Lens Application for the Management of Corneal Abrasion

Mayo Clinic

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Corneal Abrasion

Treatments: Device: Air Optix contact lens

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04159714

18-009586

Details and patient eligibility

About

The researchers are trying to understand if the application of a bandage contact lens results in better relief than usual treatment for a corneal abrasion.

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of Superficial Corneal Abrasion

Exclusion criteria

• Incarceration
• Pregnancy
• Inability to Provide Informed Consent
• Infectious keratitis
• Retained foreign bodies in the eye
• Active infection involving the orbit or periorbital region
• Patients who are not able to or who are deemed unlikely to follow-up with ophthalmology
• A history or recent contact lens wear
• A lack of trauma or an unclear history of trauma as the inciting cause of the abrasion
• Allergy to the antimicrobial solution (POLYTRIM)
• Women who are currently breastfeeding
• Chronic eye drop use
• A history of eye surgery other than cataract surgery (greater than 6 months prior to abrasion)
• Diabetes (Patients with even mild diabetic neuropathy can have decreased pain sensation and also delayed corneal epithelial healing)
• Any eye condition that may be deemed to interfere with the conduct of the protocol or outcome measurement.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1 participants in 2 patient groups

Bandage Contact Lens (BCL) group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects diagnosed with superficial corneal abrasion in the Emergency Department will have a bandage contact lens soaked in antibiotic solution placed in the affected eye

Treatment:

Device: Air Optix contact lens

Usual Care Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects diagnosed with superficial corneal abrasion in the Emergency Department will have usual care provided in the Emergency Department