The Effects of Post-Operative Interventions on Surgical Site Occurrences in AWR (NCT04906408) | Clinical Trial Compass
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The Effects of Post-Operative Interventions on Surgical Site Occurrences in AWR
United States300 participantsStarted 2021-09-17
Plain-language summary
Randomized controlled trial to compare SSO's in abdominal wall reconstruction patients using Prevena, Prineo, and traditional incisional dressings.
Who can participate
Age range18 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Age \> 18
* Patients presenting for elective ventral hernia repair
* Patients deemed to be good surgical candidates, with no active life-threatening cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, renal disease, hematologic disease -Patients who will have a closed incision following the surgery
Exclusion Criteria:
* Known allergy to any material used in any wound treatment (Prevena- Acrylic adhesive or silver, Prineo- Dermabond glue, Standard- Bacitracin, Xeroform, surgical tape) -Active smokers (within the past 4 weeks) presenting for elective hernia repair
* Patients with active life-threatening cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, renal disease, hematologic disease presenting for elective ventral hernia repair
* Patients presenting for emergent ventral hernia repair (in the setting of bowel strangulation, necrosis, penetrating trauma) as it will be difficult to consent those patients for the study preoperatively
* Patients with severe systemic sepsis
* Patients with frank purulence in the wound -Patients with an open wound following surgery -Patients undergoing a panniculectomy