Management and Short Term Outcome of Traumatic Wounds in the Emergency Department

University of Monastir3,000 enrolled

Overview

Identify the risk factors for complications as well as study the evolution of wounds sutured in the emergency room towards complications such as superinfections, necrosis, disunity of the stitches linked to inadequate initial care.

All traumatic injuries should be considered contaminated upon presentation to the emergency room. This is why the main objective of this study was to describe the attitude of patients towards their wounds, to identify the risk factors for complications as well as to study the evolution of sutured wounds in the emergency room towards complications such as superinfections, necrosis, disunity of stitches linked to inadequate initial treatment. This is a prospective, observational, monocentric study carried out in the emergency services of the Fattouma Bourguiba hospital in Monastir.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

3,000

Conditions

Wound Heal

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 1 YearMax age: 90 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients who presented to the ambulatory emergency circuit of the EPS Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir having as main reason for consultation an acute suturable wound. Exclusion Criteria: * Wounds requiring surgical treatment * Septic wounds * Chronic lesions * Vascular wounds * Patients who did not consent to the protocol.

Locations (1)

Nouira

Monastir, Tunisia

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Evolution of the wound and the healing period.

After discharge from ED patients were called back in order to know information about the Suture complications(infection, release of stitches, hematoma, etc.)

Time frame: day 10

Central Contacts

Bel Haj ALI Khaoula, MD

CONTACT

29777277 belhajalikhaoula@yahoo.fr

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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