Wound Healing After Craniotomy
Phase 3
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Wound healing after craniotomy of greater than 2 hours' duration. The craniotomy can be for any of the appropriate indications, such as intra-cranial tumour, aneurysm etc.Surgery - Other surgery
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12606000445572
- Lead Sponsor
- Clinical Associate Professor R. Andrew Danks
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 120
Inclusion Criteria
All patients undergoing de novo supra-tentorial craniotomy which is expected to last at least 2 hours.
Exclusion Criteria
Children, posterior fossa craniotomies, re-do craniotomies, and past irradiation.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Wound healing, as defined by a specific original scoring system, designed by the investigators and validated in a pilot study. The wounds are scored for completeness of healing, hair loss, and presence of infection, minor or major, leading to a score of 3-15.[At 3 and 6 weeks post-op]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method