Subcuticular Suture for Cesarean Skin Incision Closure

Completed · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Complications; Cesarean Section, Surgical Wound Infection

In brief

A comparison of the type of suture used for cesarean skin incision approximation and the subsequent rate of wound complications has not been widely studied. Investigators seek to compare poliglecaprone 25 and polyglactin 910 suture used in a subcuticular skin closure in Pfannenstiel incisions during cesarean birth and determine the subsequent wound complication rates (SSI, hematoma, seroma, wound separation).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02459093

Run by

Montefiore Medical Center

People needed

550

Starts

2015-05-01

Expected to finish

2016-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-06-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 45. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Gestational age of 37 completed weeks or greater based on their estimated due date calculated from last menstrual period or early ultrasound.
• Patients participating will be undergoing either:
• Scheduled cesarean delivery
• Non-emergent cesarean delivery

You may not qualify if…

• Urogenital tract infection within 2 weeks prior to surgery
• Chronic oral or injectable steroid use (> 2 weeks)
• Emergency cesarean delivery (need to deliver immediately due to a maternal or fetal indication)
• Vertical skin incision
• Active participation in another research study

Where it is running

• Montefiore Medical Center Weiler Division — The Bronx, New York, United States
• Montefiore Medical Center Wakefield Division — The Bronx, New York, United States

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