Conditions: Burns
Keywords: thermal injuries burns Burn Patients
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 220
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The primary objective is to compare the effectiveness of treatment with Sulfamylon® solution as the initial topical moist dressing over meshed autografts following the initial graft procedure on preventing graft loss in a prospective cohort of subjects versus a historical control group in a non-inferiority trial.

Detailed description:
This is a prospective, non-inferiority, multi-center, historically controlled, open label study that will evaluate the effects of topical therapy with Sulfamylon® For 5% Topical Solution on autograft healing in subjects with thermal injuries requiring meshed autografts against a similar historic control population in which Sulfamylon® For 5% Topical Solution or mafenide acetate or other mafenide salt forms were not used. Prospective subjects meeting the entrance criteria will receive Sulfamylon® solution as topical antimicrobial treatment on moist dressings following initial meshed autograft procedure (Day 1). Sulfamylon® solution will be used every 6-8 hours, or as needed, to keep the dressing moist. The graft will be evaluated on Days 5-7, Days 12-14 and Days 18-21, unless the subject is discharged, dies, or experiences graft loss / regrafting of the initial meshed autograft prior to Assessment 4 (Days 18-21).

Arms:
arm 1: Treated within the last 5 years (if possible) with topical prophylactic therapies that did not include mafenide acetate or mafenide salt forms. These are considered the Topical Antimicrobial/Antifungal Medications arm 2: Prospective subjects with thermal injuries of 20-60% TBSA on the chest, abdomen, or proximal upper and lower extremities requiring meshed autografts on these areas will receive SS5% as the initial topical moist dressing over the meshed autograft(s) placed at the initial graft procedure (Day 1). Intervention is Sulfamylon® For 5 % Topical Solution.

Interventions: intervention 1: Sulfamylon® For 5 % Topical Solution intervention 2: Topical Antimicrobial/Antifungal Medications
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Sulfamylon® For 5% Topical Solution is indicated for use as an adjunctive topical antimicrobial agent to control bacterial infection when used under moist dressings over meshed autografts on excised burn wounds. intervention 2: 'Topical Antimicrobial/Antifungal Medications' Various topical antimicrobials and antifungals include: Bacitracin; Amphotericin B; Silver Sulfadiazine; Cefazolin; Vancomycin; Nystatin; Fluconazole; Piperacillin Sodium with Tazobactam.

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