Active clinical trials for "Surgical Wound Infection"

This is a safety study to determine the cumulative skin irritation potential of ZuraPrep™ and ZuraPrep™ without Isopropyl Alcohol after repetitive patch applications to skin of human subjects.

This study was designed to determine whether the duration of dressing wear following augmentation mammaplasty influence skin colonization and eventually surgical site infections rates.

The primary objective of this pivotal study is to determine if a new antimicrobial dressing, applied to the sternal incisions of cardiac surgical subjects, will demonstrate a decreased cumulative incidence rate(CI) of localized, superficial infections at the sternal incisional site as compared to the control group, regular, non-antimicrobial dressing.

This is a prospective randomized study to evaluate the difference in the rate of surgical site infection between the patients who used Sodium Picosulfate solution(PicosolutionⓇ) and tablet Oral Sulphate Solution(ORA·FANGⓇ) for bowel preparation before colorectal cancer surgery .

Evaluating the effectiveness of the existing 'linear suture + wound drain placement' and 'purse-string suture + negative pressure wound therapy' through a prospective comparative study

Pregnancy-associated infection represents a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. Cesarean delivery is the most common major surgical procedure and is associated with a rate of surgical site infection (SSI) that is approximately 5-10 times the rate for vaginal delivery. Efforts to reduce the risk of SSIs in this patient population include the use of preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis in addition to skin and vaginal antiseptic preparations.Nevertheless, the rate of SSI in women undergoing non-scheduled cesarean delivery is up to 18%, a significant number that contributes to prolonged hospital stays and increased health care costs. Every effort should be made to reduce this major cause of pregnancy-associated morbidity and mortality to aid in the care of patients and reduce the associated prolonged hospital stays, readmission rates and health care costs. Studies have shown that preoperative application of chlorhexidine cloths reduces the risk of SSI, however this is based on literature in the orthopedic and intensive care patients. The efficacy of this intervention has not been studied in obstetric patients undergoing cesarean delivery. Furthermore, obstetric patients undergoing non-scheduled cesarean delivery represent a target population as it is thought that infectious morbidity is higher in this patient population. Therefore, there is a need for this trial to determine if this intervention is effective in reducing the rate of postoperative SSIs.

The current study is a single center randomized control trial that will examine the effect of closed incision negative pressure wound therapy (ciNPT) versus conventional dressing on abdominal incision in a deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap based reconstruction. Patients will be followed by 30 days post-operatively to compare outcomes including the rate of surgical site infection, seroma, and the scar quality.

Patients undergoing an elective ventral hernia repair will be randomly assigned to receive either bolus infusion or continuous infusion of the cefazolin as the prophylactic antibiotic. The blood concentrations of unbound cefazolin would be measured in their blood samples and the levels compared within the two groups with respect to their minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) value.

The purpose of this study was to compare the rate of surgical site infections in patients randomized to Irrisept versus SoC, who had an open abdominal laparotomy for abdominal trauma or acute surgical abdomen.

The incidence of surgical site infection (SSI) infection in clean dermatologic surgery is very low, between 1-3%. Studies have demonstrated a much higher infection rate in skin excision surgeries in the lower limbs, up to 10% in most studies, and even 35.7% infection rate in a recent study from Australia. To our knowledge, there are no clinical trials demonstrating the efficacy of prophylactic antibiotic given prior to skin lesion excision from the lower limbs.