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Table 4 Number of patients developing abdominal wound related complications

From: Negative pressure wound therapy management of the “open abdomen” following trauma: a prospective study and systematic review

 

Incidence

Complication

Baseline

End of therapy*

At any point during therapy

Fistula

0

0

1 (5%)

Bowel necrosis

1 (5%)

1 (5.3%)

2 (10%)

Bowel evisceration

4 (20%)

2 (10.5%)

5 (25%)

Infection / sepsis

5 (25%)

5 (26.3%)

8 (40%)

  1. The incidence of complications was recorded per patient. N=20 except * (where n=19 due to one patient dying after having a baseline assessment).
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World Journal of Emergency Surgery

ISSN: 1749-7922