Covering of the Abdominal Wall in Laparotomies: Differences in Surgical Site Infections Between an Approved Abdominal 3M™ Steri-Drape™ Wound Edge Protector and Standard Woven Swabs at Technische Universität München

Standard-Bauchwandabdeckung Mit Bauchtüchern vs. Abdeckung Mittels ringförmiger Folie: Eine Doppelblinde Randomisiert-kontrollierte Studie

BaFo is a prospective, double-blinded randomized controlled clinical trial that assesses the numbers of surgical site infections in two different techniques of covering the abdominal wall in laparotomies. Standard covering with woven swabs is compared to a novel, approved 3M™ Steri-Drape™ Wound Edge Protector.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Ability to sign the informed consent
• Patients older than 18 years
• Abdominal operations with longitudinal / cross section with clean wounds, clean-contaminated wounds or contaminated wounds (cdc-definitions of surgical wound infections)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant or lactating women
• Revision Operations
• Operations with dirty or infected wounds (CDC definition of surgical wound infections)
• Laparoscopic operations
• Small operations without longitudinal- / cross-section e.g. appendectomy