Active clinical trials for "Wounds and Injuries"

The investigators prospectively studied the results of wound closure after abdominoplasty with randomized use of PrineoTM and conventional suturing to assess the possible difference in outcome between these two methods.Follow-up visits to the outpatient clinic were scheduled at 2 weeks, 6 months and 12 months after surgery. A panel consisting of three plastic surgeons and three plastic surgery residents assessed the wound and scar appearance during the three follow-up visits.

Prolonged wound drainage following total joint replacement surgery has been shown to be a predictor of postoperative infection. Several factors have been associated with delayed wound healing and increased risk of infection. Namely hypertension, obesity, diabetes, smoking and autoimmune disease have been shown to have a detrimental effect on wound healing. The purpose of this study is to verify those findings and determine additional pharmacological, surgical and patient related factors that may result in prolonged wound drainage, prolonged hospital stay and increased risk of infection

The purpose of the study is to determine the association between acute kidney injury and serum levels symmetrical and asymmetrical dimethylarginine (SDMA/ADMA) and their assumptive influence on mortality, renal function and on arterial stiffness.

The purpose of this study is to study the biomarkers in subjects before and after sports-induced traumatic brain injury. The assay will be studied in a sample population of subjects over the age of 18 participating in college sports.

To learn more about how a family treatment program helps people after brain injury. Specifically, do families feel better and function better after going through the program, and do patients feel better and function better after going through the program.

The pupose of the study is a prospective evaluation of external and internal factors/causes of importance for the trauma and final outcome experienced by persons inside motor vehicles in serious car accidents. We hypothesise that there is an association between the use and function of safety features and the results for the patient and an association between material damage and the severity of injury.

To examine the effect of a specific training programme towards groin injuries in male footbal players. To evaluate the effect on other football related injuries as well. To examine any possible relations between various possible predictors such as experience, age, hypermobility and others, and the risk of sustaining inujries during football.

The aim of this study is to establish the additional effectiveness and costs of routine thoraco-abdominal computed tomography (CT) in blunt trauma patients versus conventional radiological imaging and to determine which clinical parameters predict a high additional value of routine thoraco-abdominal CT.

The purpose of this retrospective-prospective clinical evaluation is to determine whether the SLIC Screw System provides provisional fixation to allow biological healing of the scapholunate interval.

Hypothermia amongst trauma patients is a persistent problem that increases the relative risk of transfusion as well as morbidity and mortality. The investigators propose to conduct a single-centered randomized controlled trial to determine if the use of a zero-heat flux (ZHF) temperature monitor can reduce the incidence of hypothermia amongst trauma patients discharged from the trauma bay (TB). All eligible trauma patients will be randomized to either a standard of care group or an active temperature monitoring group. In the active temperature monitoring group, a ZHF monitor will be placed on respective trauma patients to continuously record their temperatures after they enter the TB at a large tertiary trauma centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC), in Toronto, ON. The investigators will determine if early continuous temperature monitoring can reduce the incidence of hypothermia upon discharge from the TB. Should early monitoring of severely injured trauma patients within the hospital improves discharge temperature, the foundation for two additional research studies will be laid. Firstly, the investigators will enter a vanguard phase of this trial and assess if early warming patients can improve morbidity and mortality in this patient population utilizing a multi-centered randomized controlled trial design. This will be further extended to test whether early monitoring can be applied in a pre-hospital setting (i.e. within ambulances and transport vehicles) to improve admission temperatures in the TB.