Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Prevention of Poststernotomy Infection

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Conditions studied: Surgical Wound Infection

In brief

This prospective study evaluates the role of negative pressure wound therapy or wound VAC as a dressing over the incision to prevent poststernotomy wound infection in high risk patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02020018

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

1869

Starts

2013-10-01

Expected to finish

2018-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-11-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Transplant patients
• BMI >30
• Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetics
• Severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Steroid-dependent patients
• Previous Tracheostomy

You may not qualify if…

• BMI<30
• Thoracotomy

Where it is running

• Mayo Clinic in Rochester — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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