Can a vacuum dressing save amputation patients from more surgery?
NCT ID NCT04618406
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether a special vacuum dressing (negative pressure wound therapy) helps wounds heal better after major leg amputations. 158 adults who had a leg amputation (not due to injury) took part. The goal was to see if this dressing reduces problems like infection, reopening of the wound, or the need for more surgery.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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158 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Nov 2021
- Finished
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May 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing transfemoral, knee disarticulations and transtibial amputations by non-traumatic indication * Uni or bilateral amputations or re-amputations Exclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing traumatic amputations * Unwilling or unable to provide informed consent * Inability to comply with planned study procedures * Amputations due to malignancy
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Sygehus Soenderjylland
Aabenraa, 6200, Denmark
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