Summary

Eligibility
for people ages 18 years and up (full criteria)
Location
at UC Davis
Dates
study started
completion around
Principal Investigator
by Daniel Eisen, MD (ucdavis)
Headshot of Daniel Eisen
Daniel Eisen

Description

Summary

When patients have surgery on the head and face, stitches are the standard way to close the wound. Wounds always result in a scar, but doctors are always looking for ways to reduce scarring. Several studies have been done to test ways to close wounds that reduce scarring. One idea is to reduce the tension around the cut. One way to reduce tension is to stitch a small piece of a special gauze over the top of the regular stitches. This procedure is called a "tie-over bolster dressing." As the name implies, this extra dressing "bolsters" the wound closure so that the skin on each side of the cut stays in place.

The bolster dressing procedure has been used in the past in special cases, such as when skin grafts are necessary. The bolster dressing helps the skin graft heal by making sure the graft stays exactly in place. Keeping the wound stable with a bolster dressing also reduces bleeding under the wound. For non-grafted wounds, the bolster dressing procedure has not normally been used, and has not been well-studied. In this study the whole wound will be stitched normally and then the bolster dressing will be applied over half of the wound. This will allow us to see if the side with the bolster dressing heals with less scarring.

Official Title

Aesthetic Outcome of Tie-over Bolster Application in Surgical Wounds: a Randomized Evaluator-blinded Split-wound Comparative Effectiveness Trial.

Details

Keywords

Scarring, Tie-over Bolster, Surgical Wound, Addition of Tie-Over Bolster Dressing, Layered Closure

Eligibility

Location

  • University of California, Davis - Dermatology Department accepting new patients
    Sacramento California 95816 United States

Lead Scientist at University of California Health

  • Daniel Eisen, MD (ucdavis)
    Professor, Med: Dermatology, School of Medicine. Authored (or co-authored) 135 research publications

Details

Status
accepting new patients
Start Date
Completion Date
(estimated)
Sponsor
University of California, Davis
ID
NCT05758168
Study Type
Interventional
Participants
Expecting 50 study participants
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