Clipping Versus No Hair Removal and the Risk of Surgical Site Infections

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Conditions studied: Surgical Site Infection, Superficial Surgical Site Infection, Deep Surgical Site Infection, Organ/Space Surgical Site Infection

In brief

The objective of this study is to determine whether hair clipping is non-inferior to no hair removal in preventing superficial, deep, and organ space surgical site infections (SSI) in patients undergoing various general surgical procedures, evaluated after surgery by an assessor blinded to treatment allocation. Additional goals include evaluating wound complications that arise in patients that have hair clipped and in patients that do not have hair removed and determining the impact of clipping versus no hair removal and SSI versus no SSI on length of hospital stay.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00975377

Run by

Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation

People needed

1678

Starts

2009-10-01

Expected to finish

2015-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-09-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 18 years of age or older
• Patients undergoing a general surgical procedure (inpatient or ambulatory)

You may not qualify if…

• Less than 18 years of age
• Systemic antibiotics within 1 week of surgery
• Toe amputations
• Ano-rectal surgery
• Vascular surgery
• Patients that have no need for hair to be removed for the operation
• Inability to provide consent
• Anticipated inability to keep 14 day follow-up appointment
• Emergent surgical procedure
• Patients remove their own hair prior to the operative day

Where it is running

• Gundersen Lutheran Health System — La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States

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