Comparing Modified Meek and Mesh Techniques

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Third Degree Burns
• Interventions: Procedure: modified Meek skin grafting technique; Procedure: mesh skin grafting technique

• Registration Number: NCT02285517
• Lead Sponsor: Shahraki, Babak N., M.D.

Brief Summary

This is a clinical trial study that compare two plastic surgery techniques in patients with third degree of burning and both techniques are used in all patients but in different areas of burning sites of the patients.

Detailed Description

PATIENT REGISTRATION:

The patients are registered after careful examination for third degree of burning and based on the need for skin grafting and of course a written consent were acquired. Excluded patients were those with an infected lesion or those who did not allow us to enter them into the study.

Progression of the treatment results of both techniques were visited by the surgeon regularly.

At the end of the study the data were checked with other similar studies. The acquired data were compared to other external data sources via medical records.

There were two standard operating techniques: modified meek skin grafting technique and mesh skin grafting technique.

The data was analyzed by chi-square and t-test.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-04
• Primary Completion: 2014-04
• Study Completion: 2014-07
• Study First Submitted: 2014-10-05
• Status Verified: 2014-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-11-04
• Study First Posted: 2014-11-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-11-07
• Last Update Posted: 2014-11-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• third degree of burning

Exclusion Criteria

• infected lesions

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
modified Meek technique	modified Meek skin grafting technique	Intervention: modified Meek skin grafting technique. Patients with third degree of burns without infected wounds are included and the modified Meek results are studied , measured and compared to other group which is operated lesions by mesh technique
mesh technique	mesh skin grafting technique	Intervention: mesh skin grafting technique. patients with third degree of burns without infected wounds are included and the mesh skin grafting technique results are studied , measured and compared to other group which is operated lesions by modified Meek skin grafting technique

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
measuring the size and speed of healing areas under treatment with two different skin graft techniques in a fourteen month period	up to Fourteen months	Comparing recovering areas operated by two different techniques: square centimeter was the scaling measure