Abstract

BEATO CANFUX, Abraham; PEDROSO GARRIGA, Teresa; GONZALEZ PLANAS, Gema  and  GONZALEZ-QUEVEDO RODRIGUEZ, Mario. Treatment of partial thickness burns with powdered chitin. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 1996, vol.25, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3046.

A controlled clinical trial was carried out to assess the effectiveness of the local application of 100 % powdered chitin, obtained by the extraction method, realized by Dr. Irma García in 118 patients affected with A and AB dermal burns up to 2 % of the body surface, ambulatorily treated at the burns services of "Dr. Luis Díaz Soto" and "William Soler" hospitals. Fourty five adults and 21 children integrated the assay group, and the control group, treated with 1 % silver sulfadiazine, was integrated by 31 adults and 21 children. An efficacy of 100 % chitin was confirmed, and a significantly inferior clinical healing time was obtained, related to that of the control group in A and AB dermal lesions in children (3,8 and 4,3 days less, respectively) and in AB dermal lesions in adult patients (4,1 days less).

Keywords : CHITIN [therapeutic use]; BURNS [drug therapy]; WOUND HEALING [drug effects].