Supplemental Oxygen in Vascular Surgery

Supplemental Postoperative Oxygen and the Risk of Surgical Wound Infection in a Vascular Surgery Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00873704

Enrollment

274

Registered

2009-04-02

Start date

2009-03-31

Completion date

2010-06-30

Last updated

2015-10-14

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Conditions

Surgical Wound Infection, Vascular Surgery

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

OTHERsupplemental postoperative oxygen

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 110 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* lower limb vascular surgery

Exclusion criteria

* COPD * sPO2 less than 90%

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
surgical wound infection	30 days

Countries

Finland

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026