๐ฌIn plain words
What the trial is, and whether it could suit you
randomize control trial to evaluate the efficacy of using zinc oxide versus moist exposed wound ointment in treatment of second stage pressure ulcer.
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๐ Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria:
* Willing to participate.
* KAMC cases in medical ward, neuroscience ward, and intensive care unit.
* Newly cases diagnosed with second stage pressure ulcer according to the European pressure ulcer advisory panel/national pressure ulcer advisory panel (NPUAP) guidelines.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Not consenting to participate
* Patients with suspected hypersensitivity reactions to any of the topical formulation's ingredients.
* Either a category III or IV pressure ulcer.
* Evidence of deep tissue injury (exudative drainage, purple or maroon localized area of discolored intact skin or blood-filled blister due to pressure damage).
* Signs of wound infection (pus draining from the ulcer, a foul-smelling odour, tenderness, heat and increased redness in the surrounding skin and fever).
* Patients who undertaking other therapies that could affect healing, such as corticosteroids, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy for cancer.
* Heavy smoking (more than 20 cigarettes a day).
* Concomitant chronic disease (e.g., diabetes mellitus or frank vascular disease such as Buerger's disease).
* Patients who unable to continue the study because of death, discharge, or change in the care setting.