Total Contact Soft Cast in Diabetic Foot Ulcers
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Total Contact Soft Cast, Cam Boot.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Diabetic Foot Ulcer, Diabetes Mellitus, Foot Ulcer, Foot Ulcer, Diabetic. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
To determine the effectiveness, compliance, patient tolerance, ease of use and safety of total contact soft cast in diabetic foot ulcers.
Detailed description
This study will evaluate whether the use of a total contact soft cast with or without a removable cam boot is as effective in healing diabetic foot ulcers as more commonly used offloading methods.
The total contact soft cast will consist of wound dressing of choice to the ulcer and a plantar foot accommodative offloading felt pad for all foot ulcers, with 4x4 gauze pads added to the arch to create a rocker bottom for metarsophalangeal joint (MPJj) and plantar heel ulcers. The next layers will be:
* Unna boot from MPJs to just below the knee, * Sterile Kerlix from MPJs to just below the knee * Sterile 4 inch Kling wrap from the MPJs to just below the knee, * Four inch coban from MPJs to just below the knee, and * Ace wraps from MPJs to just below the knee
Removable diabetic cam boot will be used in patients willing and capable of using it. If patient does not want to use diabetic cam boot then surgical shoe or regular shoe would be options.
Interventions
- Device Total Contact Soft Cast
The total contact soft cast will consist of wound dressing of choice to the ulcer and a plantar foot accommodative offloading felt pad for all foot ulcers, with 4x4 gauze pads added to the arch to create a rocker bottom for metarsophalangeal joint (MPJj) and plantar heel ulcers. The next layers will be: * Unna boot from MPJs to just below the knee, * Sterile Kerlix from MPJs to just below the knee * Sterile 4 inch Kling wrap from the MPJs to just below the knee, * Four inch coban from MPJs to j - Device Cam Boot
Removable Diabetic cam boot will be used in patients willing and capable of using it. If patient does not want to use Diabetic cam boot then surgical shoe or regular shoe would be options.
Primary outcome measures
- Complete Healing Rates [Time frame: 16 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Patient Compliance with Use of the Total Contact Soft Cast [Time frame: 16 weeks]
- Patient Complications [Time frame: 16 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
\- Any adult with a diabetic foot ulcer
Exclusion criteria
- Allergy to Calamine or Zinc oxide
- Inability to have leg wrapped
- Inability to be seen weekly or as needed
- Unable or unwilling to consent
- Prisoners
- Persons lacking capacity to consent
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- University of Minnesota — Minneapolis
Identifiers
NCT: NCT04210089 · ORSU-2019-28102