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

NCT01846598 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 444

Last updated 2014-04-15

No results posted yet for this study

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hsieh Pei-Yin, MSD · National Taiwan University Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
241 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-05-31
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2014-03-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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