None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Post operative wound healing plays a significant role in an individuals health and wellbeing following surgery. Current research has idenitifed that post surgical wound healing delays leads to increases in morbidity and mortality and increases the economic burden to wider healthcare system. The research will engage surgeons and clinicians in an interventional clinical trial of a negative pressure device, applied post-operatively to assist in the prevention of wound dehiscence and infection. The potential outcome of this trial will have a major impact in relation to post-surgical patient wound care and the potential to reduce the economic burden of post surgical wound dehiscence
Interventions
Topical negative pressure device, provides a negative pressure at the closed incision site (80mmHg). The device is applied following surgery for a wear time of 14 days.
Sponsors
Curtin University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
19 Years to 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Consenting adults who are undergoing an abdominal surgical procedure that uses a midline laparotomy as the surgical entry.
Exclusion criteria
peadiatrics, any patient under 18years of age, emergency admission
Outcome results
None listed