The Effects of Post-Operative Interventions on Surgical Site Occurrences in AWR

Description

Randomized controlled trial to compare SSO's in abdominal wall reconstruction patients using Prevena, Prineo, and traditional incisional dressings.

Conditions

Abdomen Hernia

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Randomized controlled trial to compare SSO's in abdominal wall reconstruction patients using Prevena, Prineo, and traditional incisional dressings.

The Effects of Post-Operative Interventions on Surgical Site Occurrences in Abdominal Wall Reconstructions: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The Effects of Post-Operative Interventions on Surgical Site Occurrences in AWR

Condition
Abdomen Hernia
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Columbus

Department of Plastic Surgery, Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43212

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Age \> 18
  • * Patients presenting for elective ventral hernia repair
  • * Patients deemed to be good surgical candidates, with no active life-threatening cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, renal disease, hematologic disease -Patients who will have a closed incision following the surgery
  • * Known allergy to any material used in any wound treatment (Prevena- Acrylic adhesive or silver, Prineo- Dermabond glue, Standard- Bacitracin, Xeroform, surgical tape) -Active smokers (within the past 4 weeks) presenting for elective hernia repair
  • * Patients with active life-threatening cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, renal disease, hematologic disease presenting for elective ventral hernia repair
  • * Patients presenting for emergent ventral hernia repair (in the setting of bowel strangulation, necrosis, penetrating trauma) as it will be difficult to consent those patients for the study preoperatively
  • * Patients with severe systemic sepsis
  • * Patients with frank purulence in the wound -Patients with an open wound following surgery -Patients undergoing a panniculectomy

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Ohio State University,

Jeffrey E Janis, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Ohio State University

Study Record Dates

2026-05-01