48 Hours After Surgery Shower Patient's Wound Infection Rate, Pain Score, Patient Satisfaction and Cost.

NCT01846598 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 201301038RIND
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 444
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Background and Purpose:The level of the surgical wound healing of the epidermis takes 6-12 hours, and the peak period of 48 hours to achieve healing.The traditional postoperative wound care was every 1-3 days clean with saline and gauze or other dressing and not opened .In traditional concept the wound touch the water that will increase the rate of wound infection.England Department of Health in 2008 surgical wound care guidelines about surgery wound cleaning solution comparison. It was no significant difference in wound infection.with normalsaline and tap water. 2012 The Cochrane Collaboration: Water for wound cleansing systematic review of the literature that wound clean water has no effect on the rate of wound infection and healing rate, conducive to personal hygiene and cost-effective. Under high temperature and humid environments in our country, after surgery not bathe often affect patients' satisfaction and increase the cost of dressing and manpower, Was opened a line after surgery the wound can be shower? It is important about surgical wound care guidelines, but also the patient daily asked a high degree of issues. Purpose of this study (1) post-operative 48 hours, shower or not wound infection rate (2) post-operative 48 hours, shower or not the pain score (3) post-operative 48 hours, shower or not the comfortable (4) post-operative 48 hours, shower or not the care costs.

Conditions

Surgical Wound Infection

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• SURGICAL SITE INFECTION

  7-14 DAYS

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 241 Months+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

adult (minimum age\> 20 years; maximum age are not limit) postoperative 48 hours suture not opened the line and remove the drainage tube of the wound (clean or clean contaminated wounds; the wound category 1,2)

You may qualify if:

• adult (minimum age\> 20 years; maximum age are not limit) postoperative 48 hours suture not opened the line and remove the drainage tube of the wound (clean or clean contaminated wounds; the wound category 1,2)

You may not qualify if:

• surgical procedure contamination or have been infected wounds
• chronic wounds
• burns,wounds
• trauma wounds
• immune function insufficiency or use of immunosuppressive agents
• can not sign a consent form
• the end stage of disease
• pregnancy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Taiwan University Hospital: lead

Study Sites (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, Taiwan

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Fernandez R, Green HL, Griffiths R, Atkinson RA, Ellwood LJ. Water for wound cleansing. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022 Sep 14;9(9):CD003861. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003861.pub4.

  PMID: 36103365 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Surgical Wound Infection

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Wound Infection; Infections; Postoperative Complications; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Hsieh Pei-Yin, MSD

  National Taiwan University Hospital

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Target Duration: 14 Days
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 1, 2013
• First Posted: May 3, 2013
• Study Start: May 1, 2013
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2014
• Study Completion: March 1, 2014
• Last Updated: April 15, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-04

Locations

TW (1)