Recovery from a burn injury is a long process, involving a number of physical and psychological challenges for patients. Scarring and the appearance of scars are important concerns for patients. Pressure garment therapy (PGT) has become the treatment of choice to control abnormal scarring of the damaged skin and has been used routinely since the 1970s. However, its effectiveness has been difficult to measure. The overall aim of the proposed study is to find out how likely it is that we can design and conduct a large clinical trial to assess whether patients treated with PGT have better outcomes, such as reduced scarring, or reduce the time to maturation compared to burns patients that do not use PGT.
The following links contain information that we hope will be useful to patients taking part in the PEGASUS trial.
- Patient Information Sheets