Incisional Wound Vac in Obese Patients

Withdrawn before enrolling · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Wound Infection, Postoperative Complication

In brief

It is the belief of the investigators that the current trends in complication rates associated with fixation of pelvic ring injuries and acetabular fractures in the obese are unacceptable. The overwhelming majority of these complications can be attributed to problems with surgical wound healing. The investigators feel that if a cost effective and easily performed intervention can be prospectively utilized in a specific at-risk orthopaedic trauma population in order to control a potentially devastating complication, then efforts in discovering such an intervention may prove valuable. It is our hypothesis that obese patients treated with V.A.C. therapy after standard closure of trauma-related, operative orthopaedic incisions will have fewer postoperative wound complications.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00789659
Run by: University of Mississippi Medical Center
People needed: 0
Starts: 2010-12-01
Expected to finish: 2014-12-01
Last updated by the study team: 2017-02-10

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 64. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Patients between the ages of 18 - 64
Patients with a BMI greater than or equal to 30
Patients with acetabular, pelvic ring, or proximal femur fractures with a degree of displacement that would require an open reduction for treatment under normal circumstances

You may not qualify if…

Patients not within variables defined by the inclusion criteria
Abdominal or urological surgery during the same hospital admission
Ipsilateral soft tissue injuries that can be classified as internal degloving injuries

Where it is running

University of Mississippi Medical Center — Jackson, Mississippi, United States

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