Healing Electroceutical Dressing for the Recovery of Open Wounds (HERO)

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-105
SponsorChandan Sen

About this trial

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether the wireless electroceutical dressing (WED) called PowerHeal™ Bioelectric Bandage, improves care of infected wounds by clearing the infection and helping the wound heal better.

The main hypotheses it aims to answer are:

1. WED promotes wound closure, as determined by wound area measurement 2. WED manages wound infection in civilian and military wounds in Ukraine, as determined by clinical assessment of wound infection by measuring the numbers and types of relevant microbes.

Researchers will compare to see if PowerHeal™ Bioelectric Bandage the dressing used in the SOC group

Participants will get their dressings changed per the protocol, wound image and swab will be taken.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Female and male participants 18-105 years of age

Hospital admission (or boarding in an emergency department or other area awaiting hospital admission) at participating clinical sites in Ukraine

Presence of worsening pain (from the moment of injury)

Erythema (redness)

Disqualifiers

Allergy to silver or zinc

Women who are pregnant or nursing

Women of childbearing potential without a documented negative pregnancy test during the current hospitalization or women of childbearing potential who refused pregnancy testing during screening

Sponsor or contract research organization (CRO) staff directly involved in the conduct of the investigation, and site staff supervised by the investigator, and their respective family members

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • PowerHeal™ Bioelectric Bandage
  • Standard of care dressing

Treatment groups

150 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Chandan Sen

Lead sponsor

University of Pittsburgh

Sponsor institution

University of Colorado, Denver

Collaborator