Overview

Heparin for the Treatment of Burn Wound Pain

Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2015-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Pain Associated with partial thickness burns (PTB) is very severe and distressing for the patients.Topical conventional treatment of superficial PTB wounds includes application of polyfax skin ointment plus lignocain gel twice a day after wound wash while deep PTB are treated with silvazine cream twice a day and prepared for grafting if not healed within 3 weeks. Existing conventional therapy is un-comfortable and expensive for the patients. Search continues for a reliable, safe, cheap and effective treatment of burn.Topical use of heparin has been found effective in reducing pain associated with burn wounds. More over use of heparin topically in burn patients is easy to perform and cheap but at the moment, evidence of its effectiveness is weak. Current study is being conducted to verify clinical effectiveness of use of heparin in 2nd degree burns by comparing it with topical conventional treatment.
Phase:
N/A
Details
Lead Sponsor:
King Edward Medical University
Treatments:
Calcium heparin
Heparin
Silver Sulfadiazine
Tramadol