Electrical Stimulation of Cutaneous Lesions

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burns; Chronic Ulcer

Treatments: Other: Control group; Other: Treatment group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02785497

U1111-1143-6541

Details and patient eligibility

About

Skin lesions, such as chronic ulcers and burns, represent a serious public health problem due to high government costs, and scarce successful conservative treatments.There is a growing scientific literature on the use of electrotherapy in the process of wound healing, but in return there is a dearth of scientific studies on the use of various types of currents and the different parameters in the proposed treatments.

Full description

This project proposes the use of polarized currents to increase the speed of healing in chronic ulcers and donor sites in burn patients. Will be included 30 patients with chronic ulcers and 30 burn patients undergoing skin graft surgery, will be randomized into control and treated groups. For the ulcer chronic group treatment will be with 50 minutes high voltage and 10 minutes diadynamica current and the burn group only 50 minutes high voltage current.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 59 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all patients admitted to the rehabilitation center of Clinical Hospital with chronic ulcer, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto / USP, in the period between january 2010 and december 2011
• all patients admitted to the Burns Unit of Clinical Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto / USP, in the period between march 2011 and december 2012

Exclusion criteria

• Infection
• weight below 16kg

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

Chronic ulcer patients will be treated with 50 minutes of the high-voltage current or 10 minutes of the diadynamic current. To burn patients 50 minutes high voltage current in the donor area. For both group the metal electrodes will be sterilized and the negative polarity in the active electrode. 50 min, 100Hz, intensity according to the sensitivity patient - High Voltage; 10 min, intensity according to the sensitivity patient - Diadynamic

Treatment:

Other: Treatment group

Control group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

For the control group the unit is turned on, the time will pass but will not be given intensity 50min, 100Hz, Intensity according to the sensitivity patient

Treatment:

Other: Control group