Randomized Controlled Trial of Antibiotics in the Management of Children With Community-Acquired Abscess
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Abscess Soft Tissue, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Infection, Skin Abscess
In brief
The purpose of this study is to better understand why children develop methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infections that require surgical drainage and whether antibiotics are helpful after the infection is drained in the operating room.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01498744
- Run by
- Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- People needed
- 53
- Starts
- 2010-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-02-25
Who can join
Age: 0 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Children between 1 month and 17 years of age who undergo Incision and Drainage of a skin and soft tissue abscess by a member of the Children's Memorial Hospital pediatric surgery faculty.
You may not qualify if…
- Children who developed their infection while hospitalized or within 2 weeks of unrelated hospital discharge will be excluded.
- Children with surgical site infections will be excluded.
- Children with inherent or acquired immunodeficiency, including but not limited to transplant patients and patients on chemotherapy or systemic corticosteroids will be excluded.
- Patients admitted to the Infectious Disease service may be excluded at the discretion of the ID attending.
- Patients who are found to have no discreet fluid collections at the time of attempted incision and drainage will be excluded.
- Patients allergic or intolerant to both bactrim and clindamycin will be excluded.
- Patients with cellulitis greater than 5 cm beyond the lateral margin of the abscess (as determined by intraoperative measurements) will be excluded.
Where it is running
- Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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