Negative Pressure Wound Therapy vs Standard Care Dressing (Prevena)

University of Toledo Health Science Campus

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy

Treatments: Device: Negative pressure wound therapy; Other: standard care dressing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03566641

Prevena V. 11/14/17

Details and patient eligibility

About

A comparison between the efficacy of negative pressure wound therapy and the efficacy of standard care dressing

Full description

The aim of our study is to compare the efficacy of negative pressure wound therapy (Prevena) and standard clinical dressing in terms of prevention of postoperative surgical site infection, length of hospital stay, and total cost of hospitalization among vascular, plastic and general surgery patients.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consent for participation from the patient or his legal representative

Exclusion criteria

• Currently infected wounds
• Patients with history of immunosupression
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Negative pressure wound therapy

Experimental group

Description:

This group of patients will receive negative pressure wound therapy (prevena) as their postoperative wound care method.

Treatment:

Device: Negative pressure wound therapy

standard care dressing

Active Comparator group

Description:

This group of patients will receive standard care dressing as their postoperative wound care method.

Treatment:

Other: standard care dressing