Improvement in Wound Healing With Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Postoperative Total Hip Arthroplasty
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Hospital |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Other |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - Any |
| Updated: | 7/27/2016 |
| Start Date: | May 2015 |
| End Date: | June 2017 |
| Contact: | Kaitlin Healy |
| Email: | kaitlin_healy@med.unc.edu |
| Phone: | 919-966-9166 |
For the target population of adult patients following primary total hip arthroplasty, the
randomized clinical trial will be used to evaluate the efficacy of the use of a mobile
negative pressure wound therapy(NPWT) device compared to a standard absorptive dressing in
the immediate postoperative period. We will apply two dressing types and evaluate the
postoperative wounds with a wound scoring system (ASEPSIS) that incorporates multiple
variables of wound infection risk.
randomized clinical trial will be used to evaluate the efficacy of the use of a mobile
negative pressure wound therapy(NPWT) device compared to a standard absorptive dressing in
the immediate postoperative period. We will apply two dressing types and evaluate the
postoperative wounds with a wound scoring system (ASEPSIS) that incorporates multiple
variables of wound infection risk.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients undergoing primary total hip arthroplasty.
Exclusion Criteria:
- age less than 18 y/o
- Total hip arthroplasty for fracture
- Revision or conversion total hip arthroplasty
- inability to personally consent to participation due to cognitive impairment,
intoxication or sedation
- multiple surgical procedures
- Patients taking immune modulating medication(prednisone, methotrexate, anakinra,
etc.)
- skin hypersensitivity to acrylic adhesive or silver.
- Inability to care for dressing due to physical or mental incapacitation
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