AQUACEL® Ag Surgical Dressing Reduces Surgical Site Infection and Improves Patient Satisfaction in Minimally Invasive Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study

Table 4

Comparison of reported literatures on AQUACEL with or without silver-impregnated dressing following total joint arthroplasty.

Study	Design	Dressing	Number of patients	Surgery	Wear time (days)	Dressing change (number)	Blister ()	SSI ()
Clarke et al. (2009) [8]	Prospective	Folded AQUACEL and hydrocolloid dressing	242	TKA and THA	3.7	1.5	2	1
Burke et al. (2012) [9]	Prospective randomized	AQUACEL and hydrocolloid dressing	62	27 TKAs; 35 THAs	—	1	4.8	0
Hopper et al. (2012) [10]	Prospective	AQUACEL Surgical	50	25 TKAs; 24 THAs; 1 RTHA	7	0	4	4
Cai et al. (2014) [11]	Case-controlled	AQUACEL Ag Surgical	903	508 TKAs; 392 THAs; 3 TKAs + THAs	—	—	—	0.4
Dobbelaere et al. (2015) [12]	Prospective randomized	AQUACEL Ag Surgical	29	29 TKAs	—	0.67	6.9	0
Springer et al. (2015) [13]	Prospective randomized	AQUACEL Ag Surgical	141	74 TKAs; 67 THAs	—	0.14	0.7	0
This study	Prospective randomized	AQUACEL Ag Surgical	115	115 MIS-TKAs	5.2	1	1.7	0.8

TKA: total knee arthroplasty; THA: total hip arthroplasty; RTHA: revision total hip arthroplasty; SSI: surgical site infection.