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PHILADELPHIA A new dressing using a lipido-colloid contact layer reduced pain during dressing changes and improved quality of life for patients with epidermolysis bullosa.
The 20 patients involved in the trial reported most of the dressing changes to be pain-free (91%). The remaining 9% of dressing changes were reported as mild to moderately painful, according to the results presented in a poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology.
The contact layer consists of petrolatum and carboxymethylcellulose on a mesh. When exudate comes in contact with the dressing, the carboxymethylcellulose swells and retains moisture, which keeps the environment moist, said coauthor Dr. Mary Regan, who is the director of clinical affairs for Hollister Wound Care (a joint venture between Hollister Incorporated and Laboratoires URGO), which markets and sells the dressing as the Restore family in the United States. The study was funded by Laboratoires URGO, which markets and sells the dressing (UrgoCell, Urgotul) in Europe.
This open-label, single-center study involved 11 adults and 9 children with simplex or dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Skin lesions were managed with the lipido-colloid contact layer dressing for a maximum of 4 weeks. At dressing changes, the researchers assessed pain and quality of life.
All 20 patients completed the trial, with a total of 152 dressing changes. Dressing application was considered by the patients to be "easy" or "very easy" for most of the dressing changes (95%). Likewise, dressing removal was considered to "easy" or "very easy" for almost all of the dressing changes (98%). Dry dressing removal was recorded for 87% of dressing changes; in 13% of dressing changes saline soaking was used for removal.
Roughly half of patients (55%) reported that using the experimental dressing had improved their quality of life, due to easier dressing removal.
"Most adults and children felt less apprehensive about the procedure than they had with their usual dressing," the researchers wrote. All but one patient said that they would use the experimental dressing to manage their lesions in the future.
PHILADELPHIA A new dressing using a lipido-colloid contact layer reduced pain during dressing changes and improved quality of life for patients with epidermolysis bullosa.
The 20 patients involved in the trial reported most of the dressing changes to be pain-free (91%). The remaining 9% of dressing changes were reported as mild to moderately painful, according to the results presented in a poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology.
The contact layer consists of petrolatum and carboxymethylcellulose on a mesh. When exudate comes in contact with the dressing, the carboxymethylcellulose swells and retains moisture, which keeps the environment moist, said coauthor Dr. Mary Regan, who is the director of clinical affairs for Hollister Wound Care (a joint venture between Hollister Incorporated and Laboratoires URGO), which markets and sells the dressing as the Restore family in the United States. The study was funded by Laboratoires URGO, which markets and sells the dressing (UrgoCell, Urgotul) in Europe.
This open-label, single-center study involved 11 adults and 9 children with simplex or dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Skin lesions were managed with the lipido-colloid contact layer dressing for a maximum of 4 weeks. At dressing changes, the researchers assessed pain and quality of life.
All 20 patients completed the trial, with a total of 152 dressing changes. Dressing application was considered by the patients to be "easy" or "very easy" for most of the dressing changes (95%). Likewise, dressing removal was considered to "easy" or "very easy" for almost all of the dressing changes (98%). Dry dressing removal was recorded for 87% of dressing changes; in 13% of dressing changes saline soaking was used for removal.
Roughly half of patients (55%) reported that using the experimental dressing had improved their quality of life, due to easier dressing removal.
"Most adults and children felt less apprehensive about the procedure than they had with their usual dressing," the researchers wrote. All but one patient said that they would use the experimental dressing to manage their lesions in the future.
PHILADELPHIA A new dressing using a lipido-colloid contact layer reduced pain during dressing changes and improved quality of life for patients with epidermolysis bullosa.
The 20 patients involved in the trial reported most of the dressing changes to be pain-free (91%). The remaining 9% of dressing changes were reported as mild to moderately painful, according to the results presented in a poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology.
The contact layer consists of petrolatum and carboxymethylcellulose on a mesh. When exudate comes in contact with the dressing, the carboxymethylcellulose swells and retains moisture, which keeps the environment moist, said coauthor Dr. Mary Regan, who is the director of clinical affairs for Hollister Wound Care (a joint venture between Hollister Incorporated and Laboratoires URGO), which markets and sells the dressing as the Restore family in the United States. The study was funded by Laboratoires URGO, which markets and sells the dressing (UrgoCell, Urgotul) in Europe.
This open-label, single-center study involved 11 adults and 9 children with simplex or dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Skin lesions were managed with the lipido-colloid contact layer dressing for a maximum of 4 weeks. At dressing changes, the researchers assessed pain and quality of life.
All 20 patients completed the trial, with a total of 152 dressing changes. Dressing application was considered by the patients to be "easy" or "very easy" for most of the dressing changes (95%). Likewise, dressing removal was considered to "easy" or "very easy" for almost all of the dressing changes (98%). Dry dressing removal was recorded for 87% of dressing changes; in 13% of dressing changes saline soaking was used for removal.
Roughly half of patients (55%) reported that using the experimental dressing had improved their quality of life, due to easier dressing removal.
"Most adults and children felt less apprehensive about the procedure than they had with their usual dressing," the researchers wrote. All but one patient said that they would use the experimental dressing to manage their lesions in the future.