Trial reportInternational wound journal2025
Effectiveness of a Rotating-Leg Prepper for Reducing Pressure Injury and Preventing Surgical Site Infection in Patients Undergoing Heart Surgery: Paired Matching Randomised Controlled Trial.
Trial report in International wound journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a rotating-leg prepper (intervention) compared with a rolled gauze bandage (control) in reducing pressure injury and preventing surgical site infection in the legs of patients undergoing heart surgery. The paired-matched, open, randomised controlled trial was conducted from September 2022 to July 2024. The participants were composed of the patient and the staff groups. Sixty patients were paired-matched to the intervention and control groups. Before painting the resting area with an antiseptic, the ankle presented non-blanchable erythema, which was recorded as a pressure injury. The intervention group showed significantly lower pressure injury (0% vs. 76.6%, p = 0.001) than the control group, with a relative risk of 5.29 (95% CI: 2.71-10.30). Both groups exhibited no significant difference in surgical site infection. However, the relative risk of surgical site infection in the control group was 2.03 (95% CI: 1.57-2.64). Thirty staff participants were purposively sampled to evaluate the effects of both leg lifting methods and assess their satisfaction with the leg prepper. The overall satisfaction with the rotating-leg prepper was 4.87 ± 0.22. Rotating-leg preppers can reduce pressure injury and prevent surgical site infections in patients' legs during heart surgery.
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