NCT02785497

Electrical Stimulation of Cutaneous Lesions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 59 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Skin lesions, such as chronic ulcers and burns, represent a serious public health problem due to high government costs, and scarce successful conservative treatments.There is a growing scientific literature on the use of electrotherapy in the process of wound healing, but in return there is a dearth of scientific studies on the use of various types of currents and the different parameters in the proposed treatments.

Detailed description

This project proposes the use of polarized currents to increase the speed of healing in chronic ulcers and donor sites in burn patients. Will be included 30 patients with chronic ulcers and 30 burn patients undergoing skin graft surgery, will be randomized into control and treated groups. For the ulcer chronic group treatment will be with 50 minutes high voltage and 10 minutes diadynamica current and the burn group only 50 minutes high voltage current.

Conditions

• Chronic Ulcer
• Burns

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Control group	will be turn on the equipment, positioning the patient but no put intensity
OTHER	Treatment group	This group will receive electrostimulation

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-03-01
• Completion: 2013-05-01
• First posted: 2016-05-27
• Last updated: 2016-05-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil