Comparative Analysis of Cost-effectiveness of Silver Dressing in Burns

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The evidence is insufficient to determine whether the types of dressings containing silver differ in time / proportion for complete wound healing and pain. We will analyze the cost-effectiveness of these dressings in outpatients, considering the service provided by the Brazilian National Public Health System.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Sorocaba
• Treatments: Silver Sulfadiazine; Sulfadiazine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults aged between 18 and 65 years;

• Regardless of sex and ethnicity;

• Presenting second degree burns (partial thickness involving the epidermis and part of the dermis, with at least the preservation of some dermal appendages from of which the wound can eventually be epithelialized spontaneously) (ARTZ; MONCRIEF; PRITT, 1980) under an outpatient regimen, without the need for surgical debridement of devitalized tissue and skin grafts informed in the initial clinical diagnosis.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with diabetes;

• Pregnant women;

• Patients with intellectual disabilities;

• Patients with burns to the face or on the palmar face of the hands or on the plantar face of the feet, as the need for specific treatment was felt to prevent functional sequelae;

• Patients who have already started treatment in other institutions;

• Those whose burns had happened 5 or more days before their entrance in the hospital;

• Those incapable of signing the informed consent form or who have declined to participate.