A Randomized Blinded Trial of Abscess Management With Packing vs No Packing
Not Applicable
Withdrawn
- Conditions
- Uncomplicated Cutaneous Abscess
- Interventions
- Procedure: Packing vs No Packing
- Registration Number
- NCT01698996
- Lead Sponsor
- Lawson Health Research Institute
- Brief Summary
Adult patients presenting to the emergency department with superficial cutaneous abscesses will be randomized after incision and drainage to standard care with wound packing or no packing to determine if there is a difference in the proportion of complications between the two groups.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- WITHDRAWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
- ≥ 18 years
- Abscess ≤ 5cm in diameter
- Truncal or extremity location
Exclusion Criteria
- Post-operative abscess (abscess in location of operative incision, operation within the last 4 months)
- HIV/immunocompromised/transplant recipient/chronic oral steroid use
- Fever at triage (temp ≥38 degrees Celsius)
- Abscess secondary to Crohn's
- Multiple abscesses requiring drainage
- Prior participation in the study for the same abscess
- Incision and drainage performed with no packing required, or where abscess cavity is <1 cm max diameter
- Bartholins/perigenital, perianal, or facial abscesses
- Complicated abscesses (fistula, suspicion of muscular extension, consultation/direct referral to general surgery)
- Inability to give consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description No Packing Packing vs No Packing No Packing Packing Packing vs No Packing Packing
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of complications (defined as a composite of the following: need for repeat incision and drainage by physician, need for admission to hospital, or need for escalation to intravenous antibiotics) 7 days
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of wounds "closed" at 1 week (wound size <0.5 cm length and depth and no drainage) 7 days
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
London Health Sciences Centre
🇨🇦London, Ontario, Canada