PICO Dressings for Emergency Laparotomy

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Surgical Site Infection

Treatments: Device: PICO dressing

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05090462

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Details and patient eligibility

About

SSI (Surgical Site Infection) rate is an important consideration after emergency laparotomy. SSIs carry a high financial burden for health institutes with the cost of major SSIs after emergency laparotomy to add an additional cost of £10000-£15000 per patient.

NICE has recommended the use of PICO dressings for the reduction of SSI rate as a cost-neutral.

The purpose of this study was to review the current SSI rate, assess the patient risk factors for development of SSIs and evaluate if the use of PICO dressings as per NICE guidelines will reduce the SSI rate.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All emergency midline laparotomy
• Laparoscopic converted open

Exclusion criteria

• Reoperation with 28 days of index laparotomy

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard surgical dressings (Clearpore)

NPWT dressing (PICO)

Treatment:

Device: PICO dressing