Comparison in abdominal wound healing after contaminated or dirty surgery with incisional negative pressure wound therapy versus standard dressing.
All patients submitted to contaminated or dirty abdominal surgery have more risk of surgical site infections. The investigators intend to randomize this kind of patients and comparison wound healing after dressed with incisional negative pressure wound therapy or standard dressing. In the study group INPWT (Prevena) is positioned immediately next surgery and dressed for six days. Every patients will be medicate in sixth, ninth, fifteenth and thirtieth day after surgery and will be valued wound healing with a scale score. Moreover for each patient it will be assessed risk developing wound complications through possum score and comorbidities.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
120
positioning incisional negative pressure therapy over closed wound.
positioning conventional dressing
Misericordia e Dolce Hospital
Prato, Po, Italy
RECRUITINGSurgical Site Infection (SSI) reduction
quantify SSI decrease after incisional negative pressure wound therapy
Time frame: 7 months
Surgical Site Infection (SSI) and risk factors as diabetis, obesity and cancer
check connection between wound complications and risk factors and showing if Incisional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (INPWT) could reduce effects of these risk factors
Time frame: 2 years
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