Role of infrared thermography in evaluating vascularity of degloved skin in traumatic injuries and in post-operative flap monitoring
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 30
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Assessing viability of degloved skin or free flaps using infrared thermography
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study is a prospective experimental study to evaluate the role of infrared thermography in degloving injuries and post-operative flap monitoring. The final outcome will be to compare results of infrared thermography with clinical assessments in identifying skin viability in degloving injuries and to evaluate its role in post-operative free flap monitoring, comparing it with gold standard clinical assessment. It will include all the stable patients presenting within 24 hours of degloving injuries and patients undergoing free flap reconstruction of any type of defect. The data of degloving injury arm will be collected for three days and that of flap monitoring arm will be collected for 5 days post-operatively. This will help in establishing the role of infrared thermography (if any) for assessing skin vascularity in both degloving injuries and flap monitoring and possible early decision making
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Not Applicable
- Masking
- Not Applicable
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 1.00 Year(s) to 80.00 Year(s) (—)
- Sex
- All
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients of any age group undergoing free flap reconstruction of any defect
- •Patients of any age group presenting with degloving injuries within 24 hours.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients in whom no skin paddle is available for monitoring
- •Patients in whom skin paddle is not accessible for monitoring
- •Refusal to give consent to participate in the study
- •Patients presenting after 24 hours
- •Post traumatic patients who are unstable presenting with shock
- •Patient presenting with crushing injuries with skin loss.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Assessing viability of degloved skin or free flaps using infrared thermography
Time Frame: 1. On day 1, 2, 3 for de-gloving injuries | 2. Intra-operative and Post-operative day 1 to 5 for free flap monitoring
Secondary Outcomes
- Assessing the utility of infrared thermography for degloving injuries and free flap monitoring(After study ends)