NCT02707627

Laser Therapy for Pediatric Burn Scars

A Controlled Trial Investigating the Use of Laser Therapy to Improve Pediatric Burn Scars.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Year – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A new era of outcomes for pediatric burn patients has begun as burn care continues to improve. Unfortunately, complete restoration of burn-injured skin may be limited by the development of hypertrophic scarring. Treatment with laser therapy is one of the newest forms of scar therapy available. Although laser therapy has only been adopted by burn clinicians within the last several years, early evidence suggests that it may offer significant benefits. Thus the aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of using laser therapy to treat hypertrophic burn scars in pediatric patients by using a comprehensive set of subjective and objective scar assessment tools.

Conditions

• Cicatrix, Hypertrophic
• Burns

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Laser Therapy	Laser therapy is a technology that can be used to treat hypertrophic burn scars.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-10-01
• Primary completion: 2020-05-01
• Completion: 2021-01-01
• First posted: 2016-03-14
• Last updated: 2021-08-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada