This prospective study evaluates the role of negative pressure wound therapy or wound VAC as a dressing over the incision to prevent poststernotomy wound infection in high risk patients.
Surgical site infection after cardiac surgery is a major cause for increased morbidity and mortality. Vacuum assisted closure (VAC) has been used in the management of open and infected wounds. However, its effectiveness as a prophylactic measure for prevention of surgical site infection after routine cardiac surgery is unknown.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1,869
negative pressure therapy that will be applied instead of the regular dressing immediately postoperatively in high risk patients and kept for 6-7 days
regular dressing that is applied immediately postoperatively for high risk patients in the operating room after sternotomy
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Wound Infection After Open Heart Surgery
The total number of participants with surgical site infections after cardiac surgery.
Time frame: 30 days post-surgery
Reoperation for Wound Infection
The total number of reoperations required due to infection.
Time frame: 30 days post surgery
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