Mini-autogenous Skin Grafts With Skin Homografts Versus Autogenous Skin Graft for Covering Post Burn Wounds in Children

Assiut University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burns

Treatments: Procedure: Mini autogenous skin graft

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03312803

Assiut

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective study comparing the use of mini-autogenous skin grafts and skin homograft versus autogenous skin grafts for covering post burn wounds in children.

Full description

A prospective study comparing the use of mini-autogenous skin grafts and skin homograft versus autogenous skin grafts for covering post burn wounds in children so that the patient can continue on his/her normal life early with less deformities

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• This study will include children (3-12) years old with (10-30) % body surface area burns, admitted to Assuit university hospital burn unit.
• The raw areas in both upper and lower limbs will be the site of the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients younger than 3 years old.
• Patients with burns more than 30% of total body surface area.
• Patients with medical or mental diseases.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Mini autogenous skin grafts

Active Comparator group

Description:

we take the autogenous skin graft from the same patient then cut it into small pieces then we spread it over the burn wound on one limb then cover these small pieces with homogenous skin graft taken from another person.

Treatment:

Procedure: Mini autogenous skin graft

Autogenous skin graft

Active Comparator group

Description:

we take the regular autogenous one piece skin graft from the same patient and cover the burn wound on the other limb then we make a comparison between both limbs

Treatment:

Procedure: Mini autogenous skin graft