PINTA - Prophylactic Incisional Negative Pressure Therapy for Major Amputations
Prophylactic Single-Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Devices for Closed Incision Major Amputations
Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
728 participants
Mar 1, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Post-operative wound issues in abdominal surgery have a significant impact on patient outcomes. This study is taking place to investigate if Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) dressings reduces Surgical Site Infections, post surgical complications and improves scar appearance compared to standard dressings.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria3
- Patients aged 18 years or older;
- Patients undergoing major lower extremity amputation, including below-knee amputation, through-knee amputation and above-knee amputation, for any indication;
- Patients with primary closure of the surgical incision using either interrupted or continuous sutures
Exclusion Criteria5
- Patients \<18 years;
- Women who are pregnant and/or breast-feeding;
- Patients with amputations performed without primary skin closure, including guillotine amputations, amputations deliberately left open for drainage purposes and amputations with soft tissues defects at the stump;
- Patients with amputations where skin glue is the only means of skin closure
- Patients with a clinically absent femoral pulse
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Interventions
Application of negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) post major lower extremity amputation
Application of standard wound dressing post major lower extremity amputation
Locations(7)
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NCT06025253