NCT02820272

Water for Reducing Pain in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

Cold Water for Reducing Pain in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Dressing Change

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 27 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chulalongkorn University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a technique using vacuum dressing to promote wound healing in complicated wound. However for many patients, the application and removal of the NPWT is source of procedural pain. Some techniques had been reported to reduce these pain such as administering topical lidocain or normal saline solution before the dressing change. The authors hypothesized that administering cold water into the NPWT sponge would decrease pain during dressing changes.

Conditions

• Treatment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	NPWT with cold water	Each of dressing change would be treated with NPWT and injection of cold sterile water kept in 4°C temperature into sponge 10 minutes before dressing change
PROCEDURE	NPWT with normal saline room temp	Each of dressing change would be treated with NPWT and injection of room temperature sterile water kept in room temperature into sponge 10 minutes before dressing change
PROCEDURE	NPWT without other intervention	Each of dressing change would be treated with NPWT without injection of any liquids into sponge before dressing change

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2013-09-01
• First posted: 2016-06-30
• Last updated: 2016-07-01