Management and Short Term Outcome of Traumatic Wounds in the Emergency Department
- Conditions
- Wound Heal
- Registration Number
- NCT05510362
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Monastir
- Brief Summary
Identify the risk factors for complications as well as study the evolution of wounds sutured in the emergency room towards complications such as superinfections, necrosis, disunity of the stitches linked to inadequate initial care.
- Detailed Description
All traumatic injuries should be considered contaminated upon presentation to the emergency room. This is why the main objective of this study was to describe the attitude of patients towards their wounds, to identify the risk factors for complications as well as to study the evolution of sutured wounds in the emergency room towards complications such as superinfections, necrosis, disunity of stitches linked to inadequate initial treatment.
This is a prospective, observational, monocentric study carried out in the emergency services of the Fattouma Bourguiba hospital in Monastir.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 3000
- Patients who presented to the ambulatory emergency circuit of the EPS Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir having as main reason for consultation an acute suturable wound.
- Wounds requiring surgical treatment
- Septic wounds
- Chronic lesions
- Vascular wounds
- Patients who did not consent to the protocol.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evolution of the wound and the healing period. day 10 After discharge from ED patients were called back in order to know information about the Suture complications(infection, release of stitches, hematoma, etc.)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Nouira
🇹🇳Monastir, Tunisia