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WithdrawnNCT01698996

A Randomized Blinded Trial of Abscess Management With Packing vs No Packing

Status
Withdrawn
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0 (actual)
Sponsor
London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

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.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
PROCEDUREPacking vs No Packing

Timeline

Start date
2013-03-01
Primary completion
2016-03-01
First posted
2012-10-03
Last updated
2015-03-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01698996. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.