Association of negative pressure wound therapy and surgical site infections in patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery: An entropy balanced analysis

NPWT was not associated with a reduction in SSIs. These findings prompt a reevaluation of the routine use of NPWT in CRS/HIPEC.

Authors

Laleh Golkar Melstrom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6279-7981)
Thinzar M. Lwin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1820-088X)
Ernest Han (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6224-8544)
Muhammad Talha Waheed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0679-4396)
Isaac Benjamin Paz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8657-9011)
Philip H. G. Ituarte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6790-837X)
Yanghee Woo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6676-0593)
Mustafa Raoof (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4710-2226)
Ibrahim Malik