Wound infection and pain
Two patients had an ASEPSIS score>20 within their index
hospital admission, increasing to 5 patients at any time from surgery to
12 months post-operatively (Appendix Table A8 ). Fewer patients
randomised to the low-pressure group reported pain (NPSI pain
score>0) at 3 months compared to the high-pressure group
(11/40, 28% vs. 16/33 48%; OR (low:high) = 0.40, 95%CI (0.15, 1.04),
p=0.061, but at 12 months similar numbers reported pain (16/39, 41% vs.
12/35, 34%; OR (low:high) = 1.29, 95%CI 0.50, 3.29, p=0.60). Pain was
similar in the pedicled and conventional harvest groups (OR
(pedicled:conventional) = 0.98, 95%CI 0.45, 2.14, p=0.96,Figure 3, Appendix Tables A12 and A13) .
DISCUSSION