Prophylactic PICO<sup>◊</sup> dressing shortens wound dressing requirements post emergency laparotomy (EL-PICO<sup>◊</sup> trial).

There was a trend towards lower SSI [14.3 vs 4.3%, P = 0.09], dehiscence [27.1 vs 10.6%, P = 0.07] and seroma [40.8 vs 23.4%, P = 0.08] rates in the intervention arm but this did not reach statistical significance.

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