Cast Sores With Waterproof Vs. Standard Cast Padding

Shriners Hospitals for Children

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Pressure Ulcer

Treatments

Other: Casting using Gortex (waterproof) cast padding materials

Other: Casting using cotton/cotton-poly cast padding materials

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00504855

SHCH-JPB-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare waterproof cast padding material to standard cotton/poly-cotton cast padding material to the presence or absence of cast sores of the heel.

Full description

Cast sores result in pain, scarring and sometimes disfigurement. No study has specifically evaluated the efficacy of waterproof cast padding with respect to preventing lower extremity cast sores.

Comparison: Non-blinded randomization to waterproof or cotton/cotton-poly cast padding material in a pediatric population who have lower extremity casts that include the foot and are applied in the operating room. Comparison of cast sore incidence will be made in the two randomized groups.

Enrollment

84 patients

Sex

All

Ages

1 to 18 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patient at Shriners Hospital for Children - Honolulu
Ages 0-18
Short leg, long leg, spica or Petrie cast that includes the foot
Cast applied in the operating room

Exclusion criteria

Ponsetti casts (club foot casts with no more surgery than Achilles tenotomy, age < 1 year)
Splints
cylinder casts or spicas which don't include the foot