Abdominal Binder Study to Decrease Postoperative Pain

Brooke Army Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Pain

Treatments: Device: abdominal binder; Other: no binder

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01685593

C.2001.128

Details and patient eligibility

About

We conducted a controlled randomized trial examining the ability of the Mott abdominal Compression Binder to decrease postoperative pain in gynecologic abdominal laparotomy patients

Enrollment: 76 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• gynecologic abdominal laparotomy patients

Exclusion criteria

• non gynecologic abdominal laparotomy patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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76 participants in 2 patient groups

regular bandage

Sham Comparator group

Description:

no abdominal binder

Treatment:

Other: no binder

abdominal binder

Experimental group

Description:

binder

Treatment:

Device: abdominal binder