Management and Short Term Outcome of Traumatic Wounds in the Emergency Department (SUTURES)

Identify the risk factors for complications as well as study the evolution of wounds sutured in the emergency room towards complications such as superinfections, necrosis, disunity of the stitches linked to inadequate initial care.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Wound Heal

Detailed Description

All traumatic injuries should be considered contaminated upon presentation to the emergency room. This is why the main objective of this study was to describe the attitude of patients towards their wounds, to identify the risk factors for complications as well as to study the evolution of sutured wounds in the emergency room towards complications such as superinfections, necrosis, disunity of stitches linked to inadequate initial treatment.

This is a prospective, observational, monocentric study carried out in the emergency services of the Fattouma Bourguiba hospital in Monastir.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Estimated): 3000

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Bel Haj Ali Khaoula, MD; Phone Number: 216 29777277; Email: belhajalikhaoula@yahoo.fr

Study Locations

• Tunisia
  • Monastir, Tunisia, 5060
    • Recruiting
    • Nouira
    • Contact: semir nouira, professor; Phone Number: 216 73106000; Email: semir.nouira@rns.tn
    • Contact: khaoula Bel Haj Ali, MD; Phone Number: 216 73106000

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 1 year to 90 years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

All patients with an acute suturable wound and accept to enroll the study .

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who presented to the ambulatory emergency circuit of the EPS Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir having as main reason for consultation an acute suturable wound.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Wounds requiring surgical treatment
• Septic wounds
• Chronic lesions
• Vascular wounds
• Patients who did not consent to the protocol.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Evolution of the wound and the healing period.	After discharge from ED patients were called back in order to know information about the Suture complications(infection, release of stitches, hematoma, etc.)	day 10

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Monastir
• Investigators: Study Director: Bel Haj Ali A Khaoula, MD, CHU Fattouma Bourguiba Monastir, service des urgences

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 8, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 8, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): October 10, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 19, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 19, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): August 22, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 15, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 14, 2024
• Last Verified: March 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: wounds; superinfections; stitches
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Emergencies; Wounds and Injuries
• Other Study ID Numbers: SUTURES

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No