Trial reportInternational wound journal2016
Negative pressure wound therapy for seroma prevention and surgical incision treatment in spinal fracture care.
Trial report in International wound journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Can prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy improve clinical outcomes in spinal fusion surgery? A meta-analysis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2022Pooled it
- Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by primary closure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by primary closure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by primary closure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Negative pressure wound therapy for surgical wounds healing by primary closure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of Comparative Trials Evaluating a Prophylactic Single-Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System for the Prevention of Surgical Site Complications.Surgical infections · 2017Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of negative-pressure wound therapy for closed surgical incisions.The British journal of surgery · 2016Pooled it
- Negative-pressure wound therapy compared with standard dressings following surgical treatment of major trauma to the lower limb: the WHiST RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2020Trial
- Surgical Site Infection in Cardiac Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Spinal Surgery.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Closed-incision negative pressure therapy at -125 mmHg significantly reduces surgical site complications following total hip and knee arthroplasties: A stratified meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Health science reports · 2022Article
- Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of Post-Surgical Mediastinitis in Adults Consensus Guidelines of the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular Infections (Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Management of complex surgical wounds of the back: identifying an evidence-based approach.Archives of plastic surgery · 2021Article
- Negative pressure-assisted endoscopic pilonidal sinus treatment.Techniques in coloproctology · 2021Article
- Novel Use of a Porcine Bladder Extracellular Matrix Scaffold to Treat Postoperative Seroma in a Total Knee Arthroplasty Patient.Arthroplasty today · 2021Article
- An Often Easily Missed Injury in the Presence of Orthopaedic Trauma: A Case Series of Derived Injury.Orthopaedic surgery · 2020Article
- Closed incision negative pressure therapy: international multidisciplinary consensus recommendations.International wound journal · 2017Review
- Endoluminal vacuum therapy for gastrojejunal anastomotic leaks after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a pilot study in a swine model.Surgical endoscopy · 2016Article
- The impact of surgical site occurrences and the role of closed incision negative pressure therapy.International wound journal · 2016Article
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10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
To evaluate the clinical use and economic aspects of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) after dorsal stabilisation of spinal fractures. This study is a prospective randomised evaluation of NPWT in patients with large surgical wounds after surgical stabilisation of spinal fractures by internal fixation. Patients were randomised to either standard wound dressing treatment (group A) or NPWT (group B). The wound area was examined by ultrasound to measure seroma volumes in both groups on the 5th and 10th day after surgery. Furthermore, data on economic aspects such as nursing time for wound care and material used for wound dressing were evaluated. A total of 20 patients (10 in each group) were enrolled. Throughout the whole study, mean seroma volume was significantly higher in group A than that in group B (day 5: 1·9 ml versus 0 ml; P = 0·0007; day 10: 1·6 ml versus 0·5 ml; P <0·024). Furthermore, patients of group A required more wound care time (group A: 31 ± 10 minutes; group B 13·8 ± 6 minutes; P = 0·0005) and more number of compresses (total number; group A 35 ± 15; group B 11 ± 3; P = 0·0376). NPWT reduced the development of postoperative seroma, reduced nursing time and reduced material required for wound care.
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