Background Obesity is associated with increased surgical‐site infection (SSI) following
caesarean section (CS). Objective To summarise the evidence on the effectiveness of …

Prevention of surgical site infection (SSI) is a public health challenge. The objective of the
study was to evaluate the efficacy of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) for …

BACKGROUND The single-use negative-pressure wound therapy dressings are designed
to use over a closed surgical wound. Early prospective studies suggested that these …

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Most caesarean wounds resulted in infection. This become a huge burden on the health
care system, considering the high number of women undergoing this type of surgery …

Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) in clinical trial design contributes to
ensuring the research objectives and outcome measures are relevant to patients. The …

Introduction Closed incision negative‐pressure therapy (CINPT) has been shown to shorten
the time to heal in post‐bariatric abdominoplasty and to lower seroma rates in cosmetic …

Background: Wound healing after resection of large soft-tissue tumors is often impaired by
large dead space and fluid collection. Recently, the authors were able to show an …

BACKGROUND There has been an increasing number of randomized controlled trials
published in obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine to reduce biases of treatment effect and …

BACKGROUND Surgical wound complications are common and occur in between 3% and
12% of obese women after cesarean delivery. An understanding of the risk factors for wound …