Dressing wear time after breast reconstruction: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the major risk variables for surgical site infection is wound management. Understanding infection risk factors for breast operations is essential in order to develop infection-prevention strategies and improve surgical outcomes. The aim of this trial is to assess the influence of dressing wear time on surgical site infection rates and skin colonization. Patients' perception at self-assessment will also be analyzed.

Methods/design

This is a two-arm randomized controlled trial. Two hundred breast cancer patients undergoing immediate or delayed breast reconstruction will be prospectively enrolled. Patients will be randomly allocated to group I (dressing removed on postoperative day one) or group II (dressing removed on postoperative day six). Surgical site inf

SUBMITTER: Veiga DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3604956 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature