Comparing Modified Meek and Mesh Techniques

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This is a clinical trial study that compare two plastic surgery techniques in patients with third degree of burning and both techniques are used in all patients but in different areas of burning sites of the patients.

Detailed Description
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PATIENT REGISTRATION: The patients are registered after careful examination for third degree of burning and based on the need for skin grafting and of course a written consent were acquired. Excluded patients were those with an infected lesion or those who did not allow us to enter them into the study. Progression of the treatment results of both techniques were visited by the surgeon regularly. At the end of the study the data were checked with other similar studies. The acquired data were compared to other external data sources via medical records. There were two standard operating techniques: modified meek skin grafting technique and mesh skin grafting technique. The data was analyzed by chi-square and t-test.

Official Title
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Comparing Mesh and Modified Meek Skin Grafting Techniques in Third Degree Burned Patients Referred to Burn Ward of Khatam-al-anbia Hospital, Irtan

Conditions
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Third Degree Burns

Intervention / Treatment
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* Procedure: modified Meek skin grafting technique
* Procedure: mesh skin grafting technique


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: third degree of burning Exclusion Criteria: infected lesions
Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Active Comparator: modified Meek technique<br>Intervention: modified Meek skin grafting technique. Patients with third degree of burns without infected wounds are included and the modified Meek results are studied , measured and compared to other group which is operated lesions by mesh technique | Procedure: modified Meek skin grafting technique<br>* patients with third degree of burns and without infected wounds are entered to the study and modified Meek skin grating technique is used to treat them and then the results of the procedure are compared to mesh skin grafting technique results by measuring the square centimeters of healed areas related to the technique<br>|
| Active Comparator: mesh technique<br>Intervention: mesh skin grafting technique. patients with third degree of burns without infected wounds are included and the mesh skin grafting technique results are studied , measured and compared to other group which is operated lesions by modified Meek skin grafting technique | Procedure: mesh skin grafting technique<br>* patients with third degree of burns and without infected wounds are entered to the study and mesh skin grating technique is used to treat them and then the results of the procedure are compared to modified Meek skin grafting technique results by measuring the square centimeters of healed areas related to the technique<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| measuring the size and speed of healing areas under treatment with two different skin graft techniques in a fourteen month period | Comparing recovering areas operated by two different techniques: square centimeter was the scaling measure | up to Fourteen months |