A Comparison of Incisional Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy Versus Conventional Dressings Following Abdominal Surgery

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Conditions studied: Abdominal Reconstruction

In brief

The purpose of this study is to compare outcomes between incisional negative-pressure wound vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy versus conventional dressings following abdominal surgery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02534116

Run by

Yale University

People needed

0

Starts

2015-12-01

Expected to finish

2017-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-01-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients included in this study are patients undergoing abdominal reconstruction, which includes panniculectomy, abdominoplasty, ventral hernia repair and patients undergoing autologous flap reconstruction using abdominal donor tissue.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients will be excluded from study if they have an actively infected wound involving the incision, abdominal malignancy, a history of enteric fistula formation, or a bleeding disorder.

Where it is running

• Yale University, Section of Plastic Surgery — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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