SynthesisUpdates in surgery2017
A systematic review of clinical effectiveness of wound edge protector devices in reducing surgical site infections in patients undergoing abdominal surgery.
Synthesis in Updates in surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03816995 (A Novel Wound Retractor Combining Continuous Irrigation and Barrier Protection Reduces Incisional Contamination and Surgical Site Infection in Colorectal Surgery), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Novel Wound Retractor Combining Continuous Irrigation and Barrier Protection Reduces Incisional Contamination and Surgical Site Infection in Colorectal Surgery
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Role of wound protectors in preventing surgical site infection in patients undergoing abdominal surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of wound protectors in reducing the incidence of surgical site wound infection in lower gastrointestinal surgery: A meta-analysis.International wound journal · 2023Pooled it
- The clinical effectiveness of wound edge protectors in reducing surgical site infection after abdominal surgery: meta-analysis.BJS open · 2022Pooled it
- Clinical prediction score for superficial surgical site infection after appendectomy in adults with complicated appendicitis.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2018Trial
- Impact of Wound Protectors on Complications Following Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Analysis of 20 960 Patients.Journal of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- The efficacy of wound edge protectors in reducing the post-operative surgical site infections after abdominal surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical studies.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2023Article
- Delphi Consensus on Intraoperative Technical/Surgical Aspects to Prevent Surgical Site Infection after Colorectal Surgery.Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2022Article
- Implementation of a Bundle of Care in Colorectal Surgery to Reduce Surgical Site Infections Successfully at Cantonal Hospital Lucerne: Study Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study.International journal of surgery protocols · 2021Article
- Intraoperative surgical site infection control and prevention: a position paper and future addendum to WSES intra-abdominal infections guidelines.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2020Review
- Wound protectors for improved exposure in open hernia repair.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2019Article
- Prophylactic closed-incision negative-pressure wound therapy is associated with decreased surgical site infection in high-risk colorectal surgery laparotomy wounds.Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland · 2019Article
- A Novel Wound Retractor Combining Continuous Irrigation and Barrier Protection Reduces Incisional Contamination in Colorectal Surgery.World journal of surgery · 2018Article
- O-Ring Protector in Prevention of SSIs in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery.JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic SurgeonsArticle
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This article highlights the clinical effectiveness of wound edge protector devices (WEPD) in preventing the post-operative surgical site infections (SSI) in patients undergoing abdominal surgery. Using the principles of meta-analysis and systematic review as recommended by the Cochrane Collaboration, the data from selected randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) were analysed to generate summated outcome and presented in the form of odds ratio (OR). Eighteen RCTs on 3808 reported the effectiveness of WEPD in patients undergoing abdominal surgery. The use of WEPD was associated with the reduced incidence of overall SSI (OR 0.59; 95% CI 0.43-0.81; z = 3.30; p < 0.001) and superficial SSI (OR 0.42; 95% CI 0.18-0.95; z = 2.09; p < 0.04). In addition, WEPD also successfully reduced the risk of SSI in clean-contaminated wounds (OR 0.67; 95% CI 0.46-0.98; z = 2.06; p < 0.04) as well as in contaminated wounds (OR 0.24; 95% CI 0.12-0.49; z = 3.96; p < 0.0001). WEPD seems to be an effective intervention to reduce the risk of post-operative SSI in patients undergoing abdominal surgery.
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