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.
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
60
will be turn on the equipment, positioning the patient but no put intensity
This group will receive electrostimulation
University of Sao Paulo
Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
clinical evaluation of the lesion
will be documented appearance of the wound
Time frame: Two years
standard photographic records of the wounds and quantification by digital software
Assessment the wound area image for image j software and validate CAPAS software for the healing wound image by descriptors textures
Time frame: Two years
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