The Effects of Post-Operative Interventions on Surgical Site Occurrences in AWR

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Randomized controlled trial to compare SSO's in abdominal wall reconstruction patients using Prevena, Prineo, and traditional incisional dressings.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ohio State University

Criteria

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