Supplemental Oxygen in Vascular Surgery

North Karelia Central Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Vascular Surgery; Surgical Wound Infection

Treatments: Other: supplemental postoperative oxygen

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00873704

NKCH-Surg-003

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that supplemental postoperative oxygen reduces the risk of surgical wound infection in patients following lower limb vascular surgery.

Enrollment: 274 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 110 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• lower limb vascular surgery

Exclusion criteria

• COPD
• sPO2 less than 90%

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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274 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Active Comparator group

Description:

recieves supplemental oxygen postoperatively

Treatment:

Other: supplemental postoperative oxygen

2

No Intervention group

Description:

treated as usual without supplemental oxygen