Liposomal Bupivicaine for Skin Graft Donor Sites in Burn Patients
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Unknown status
Trial end date:
2019-09-30
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Summary
Burn injuries are painful to patients and the sources of pain result from many areas
including: the injury itself, wound care, and surgery. Inpatients that require surgical skin
grafting is often required and the donor site of a skin graft is quite painful for patients.
The investigators try to minimize that pain with local anesthetic as well as a combination of
pain medications, the donor site pain lasts for days and is what patients often report as
being the most painful part of their burn care.
There has been the development of a new form of local anesthesia that can last up to 72 hours
when injected into tissue. Based on encouraging results in the literature in areas outside of
burns, this study aims to evaluate whether administration of this medication at the time of
surgery can help improve pain for burn patients in the postoperative period.