A prospective randomised study comparing the jubilee dressing method to a standard adhesive dressing for total hip and knee replacements.
OBJECTIVE
It is important to reduce potential wound complications in total hip and total knee arthroplasty procedures. The purpose of this study was to compare the jubilee dressing method to a standard adhesive dressing.


METHODS
124 patients (62 total hip replacements and 62 total knee replacements) were randomly selected to have either a standard adhesive dressing or jubilee method dressing. The number of dressing changes, incidence of blistering, leakage, appearance of inflammation, infection rate and the average stay in hospital was recorded for each patient.


RESULTS
The jubilee dressing significantly reduced the rate of blistering, leakage and number of dressing changes when compare to a traditional adhesive dressing (p < 0.05). The rate of inflammation and average length of stay in hospital was not significantly different between the two groups.


CONCLUSIONS
The authors recommend the use of this dressing for total hip and total knee arthroplasty procedures due to the associated lower complication rate.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. nei1burke@yahoo.co.uk
Neil G
NG
Burke
Connor
C
Green
Gavin
G
McHugh
Niall
N
McGolderick
Carol
C
Kilcoyne
Patrick
P
Kenny
D000368:Aged; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / Q000451:nursing*; D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000451:nursing*; D001458:Bandages / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*