Electrical Stimulation as an Adjunctive Therapy to Increase Vascular Perfusion in People With PAD or PVD

Stanford University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: PVD- Peripheral Vascular Disease; PAD - Peripheral Arterial Disease

Treatments: Device: Tennant Biomodulator-Pro™ Device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04313985

45628

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to apply Avazzia micro-current stimulation to patients with chronic, non-healing wounds to determine if this therapy is effective in perfusion and bacterial measurements.

Full description

Investigators hope to learn if micro-current stimulation to a chronic, non-healing wound can be lead to healing. Perfusion studies and bacterial measurements will be assessed before and after treatment on this cross-over study.

Avazzia microcurrent stimulation was applied to patients with chronic, non-healing wounds in Malaysia and was presented at the international wound conference. In 2015 a poster presentation was presented with a 10-patient case series, and in August 2016, a presentation was made by Dr. Nair, keynote speaker about his 100- patient case series showing that the treatment was safe and effective. Dr. Nair followed this study with a 5-patient study looking at perfusion images using SPY- LUNA imaging equipment. The 5-patient study looked at different methods of applying the therapy.

Enrollment: 4 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient has a chronic non-healing wound that has not healed in 30 days in their feet, legs, lower back or buttocks, but not in their hands because the hands will be used to verify equipment operation.
• Age ≥18 and ≤70 years
• Wound area is ≥0.5 cm2 and ≤22 cm2
• Willing and able to comply with weekly visits to clinic (e.g., reliable transportation)

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of an electrical implant such as a cardiac pacemaker or neural stimulator
• Patient is currently pregnant, possibly pregnant or breast-feeding User of any microcurrent device in the past six (6) months prior to enrollment in the study
• Patient is experiencing a medical emergency
• Patient is diagnosed with neuropathy from sources other than diabetes, such as heavy metal, xenobiotic toxicity
• Patient is diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth or similar genetically inheritable neuropathic disease(s)
• Patient is diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease/dialysis or severe kidney insufficiency
• Patient is diagnosed with malignancies (cancers) undergoing treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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4 participants in 2 patient groups

Electrical Stimulation First, then Sham Stimulation

Active Comparator group

Description:

Treat the patient's wound area: Place self-adhesive, conductive electrode pads on either side of the wound on the skin where the pads are not placed in the open wound itself, but rather in the surrounding area with one pad on each side of the wound. Connect the pads to the lead wire to the Avazzia device. Turn on the Avazzia device and change modes to the RSI mode. Increase power to maximum comfortable power level for the patient. If the patient cannot feel the output, then increase power to 250. Instruct the patient to reduce the power level if it begins to feel too strong. (sometimes as the microstimulation is applied, the tissue will become more sensitive to the stimulation. In this case the power should be reduced for patient comfort.) Allow to run unattended for 15 minutes. Take a picture of the pad placement and display on the device to document location, power setting, and treatment mode while the treatment is running for the 15 minutes.

Treatment:

Device: Tennant Biomodulator-Pro™ Device

Sham Electrical Stimulation First, then Electrical Stimulation

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Treat the patient's wound area: Place self-adhesive, conductive electrode pads on either side of the wound on the skin where the pads are not placed in the open wound itself, but rather in the surrounding area with one pad on each side of the wound. Connect the pads to the lead wire to the Avazzia device. Turn on the Avazzia device and change modes to the RSI mode. Increase power to maximum comfortable power level for the patient. If the patient cannot feel the output, then increase power to 250. Instruct the patient to reduce the power level if it begins to feel too strong. (sometimes as the microstimulation is applied, the tissue will become more sensitive to the stimulation. In this case the power should be reduced for patient comfort.) Allow to run unattended for 15 minutes. Take a picture of the pad placement and display on the device to document location, power setting, and treatment mode while the treatment is running for the 15 minutes.

Treatment:

Device: Tennant Biomodulator-Pro™ Device