Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infections Using Fascia Closure After EVAR-A Randomized Trial.

"Declarations Conflict of interestNone. Ethical approvalThis study was approved by the regional ethical review board in Lund (Registration number 2013/322 and 2016/886). Informed consentIt was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Conflict of interest None."

"Funding Open access funding provided by Lund University. Research funds were received from the Swedish medical research council (2019–00435), the Hulda Almroth Foundation, Skane University hospital, Region Skane, the Swedish government under the ALF agreement and Smith & Nephew (2013) which also provided 100 PICOTM dressings. The funding sources were not involved in study design, analysis, interpretation, writing or submission of the manuscript."

"The INVIPS-trial was approved by the regional ethical review board in Lund (Diary number 2013/322 and 2016/886). A study protocol was registered a priori at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01913132) []. The INVIPS-trial was reported in accordance with the CONSORT guidelines (CONSORT checklist in Supplemental Table 1)."