U.S., Oct. 20 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07880197) titled 'Knotless Versus Conventional Sutures for Wound Closure in Cerebral Palsy Multilevel Surgery' on Oct. 11.
Brief Summary: This study compares two standard ways of closing surgical incisions in children and adults with cerebral palsy who are having multilevel surgery on both legs (single-event multilevel surgery, or SEMLS). Each participant serves as their own control: all study incisions on one leg, chosen at random, are closed with knotless barbed sutures, and the matching incisions on the other leg are closed with conventional knotted sutures. All sutures used have an antibacterial (triclosan) coating. The main question is whether k...