Effectiveness for Interventions to Minimize Surgical Site Infections

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Infections

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate two different simple and inexpensive extra treatments during colorectal surgeries to see if this will reduce the rate of post operative infections

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01153191

Run by

Dallas VA Medical Center

People needed

120

Starts

2010-08-01

Expected to finish

2012-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-11-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 95. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• VA patients getting transabdominal,elective colorectal procedures
• willing and capable of giving self informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• patients unable to give informed consent
• emergency colorectal procedures
• transanal procedures
• patients who have contaminated or dirty wounds that would preclude attempts at skin closure at the conclusion of the procedure
• patients undergoing appendectomy
• patients undergoing intraabdominal procedures not including surgical resection of the colon or rectum (ie.procedures involving small bowel , stomach)
• patients with pre/op creatinine clearance less than 20ml/min
• patients with known allergy or hypersensitivity to gentamicin
• patients that have received gentamicin within 2 weeks of potential study date

Where it is running

• VANTXHCS — Dallas, Texas, United States

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