Evaluation Perioperative Nutrition on Donor Site Healing in Patients Undergoing Reconstructive Burn Surg

Shriners Hospitals for Children

Status and phase: Terminated; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Reconstructive Surgical Procedure; Burn

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Juven (Ross Products) protein supplement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00539097

03-04-23-05

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hope to learn if taking a nutrition drink for a short time after surgery for an elective reconstructive burn injury improves donor site healing, muscle mass and scar maturation time (the point at which the redness, height and firmness of the wound has faded, flattened and softened, and no longer changes in appearance).

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least one year post-acute burn injury
• Admitted for surgery whereby split thickness donor site created
• Received initial acute treatment at Shriner's Hospital in Cincinnati

Exclusion criteria

• Less than 6years of age
• Less than one year from acute burn injury
• Split thickness donor site/autograft not anticipated
• Initial treatment not at Shriners Hospital in Cincinnati

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

A, treated

Experimental group

Description:

treated with Juven po supplement x 3 weeks postop

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Juven (Ross Products) protein supplement

B, control

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual nutrition therapy received postop