Active clinical trials for "Surgical Wound Infection"

More than 8 millions surgical interventions are carried out each year in France. Postoperative complications, in particular infectious, can occur in 10 to 60% of cases and are the cause of postoperative revision in 30% of cases, an increase in mortality, length of stay, readmissions and lead to significant additional socio-economic costs. Currently, improvements in surgical practices have not reduced the incidence of surgical site complications. In this context, the development of predictive scores for the risk of post-operative complication becomes urgent in order to implement new interventions (pre-habilitation) or to modify surgical decisions (timing, approach) in order to reduce the risk of complications before surgery. Several recent studies highlights the importance of the immune response in postoperative prognosis. In particular, an imbalance between the adaptive and innate response involving MDSCs has been demonstrated in patients with postoperative complications.Thanks to new techniques for analyzing the immune system, in-depth analysis of the immune system before surgery is a very promising approach aimed at identifying predictive biomarkers of postoperative prognosis. Our team has developed and patented a multivariate model integrating mass cytometry data, proteomics and clinical data collected before surgery to accurately predict the occurrence of a surgical site complication (AUC = 0.94, p<10e-7) in a monocentric cohort of 43 patients to major abdominal surgery (Stanford University). The objective of the present study is to generalize and validate this preoperative predictive score of infectious complications of the surgical site in the 30 days following major digestive surgery on a larger workforce within a multicenter cohort and to validate this score at using a machine learning method.

There are conflicting results in the literature explaining the relationship between surgical site infection (SSI) and inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH). Although it is thought that the risk of IPH is lower in laparoscopic surgery types due to the short duration of the surgical procedure, these conflicting results raise doubts as to whether there is a relationship between IPH and SSI in laparoscopic surgery patients. A randomized controlled study will be planned in the future to examine the effect of IPH on SSI in patients who will undergo laparoscopic cholecystectomies. The study will be conducted in the general surgery clinic and operating room of a university hospital. It will be completed with a total of 100 patients, 50 of whom will be in the case group, and 50 will be in the control group.

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of main complication in surgery. It usually occurs within 30 days post operation. The superficial SSI is an infection of skin and subcutaneous layer, clinically presented by pus oozing. Furthermore, seroma hematoma and wound dehiscence are also clinical signs of superficial SSI. Nowadays, there are studies which report methods reducing SSI by placing negative pressure drain within surgical wound. It can reduce serum in subcutaneous layer which is found in every surgical wound, especially in clean-contaminated and contaminated wound. Many studies show that placing negative pressure drainage within a surgical wound can reduce superficial SSI and decrease hospital length of stay by comparing with the control group. The objective in this study to compare the rate of SSI of clean-contaminated and contaminated surgical wounds between the patients whose wounds are placed with negative pressure drainage and patients who were not placed with negative pressure drainage.

The overall objective of this study is to identify the best strategy to eliminate unnecessary antibiotic use after surgery in pediatric surgical procedures considered low-risk for an SSI. Based on literature and our preliminary data suggesting surgeons will not fully accept standardized order sets based on current guidelines, the investigators hypothesize that order set modification combined with ASP facilitation will outperform standard order set modification alone in de-implementing unnecessary postoperative antibiotic use.

Surgical site infection (SSI) is the second cause of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Its appearance increase mobidity and post-operatice hospital stays, increasing costs aswell, although its one of the most preventable HAI. The diagnosis and detection of SSI is usually carried out late by non-especialists once the patient has consulted to the emergency services or primary care with an already obvious infections. This raise both the direct and indirect costs and saturaties the emergency department and primary care, while delays treatment and increase disconfort and morbidity. A smart phone aplication (RedScar© ) was developped in order to detect and monitor wound infection remotely based on an automated algorithm with no medical intervention.This app allows the patient to upload a photography and answer a short questionary, the aplication will then give a diagnosis of possible infection and recommendations. This study is the first one to use a smartphone-based automatic aplication on real patients to diagnosis wound infection . This is a prospective, single-institution not randomized quasy-experimental study protocol. The study design and protocol were reviewed and approved by Research Ethics Committee of the Balearic Islands (CEI-IB). This paper is part of the R+D+i Project PID2020-113870GB-I00- "Desarrollo de herramientas de Soft Computing para la Ayuda al Diagnóstico Clínico y a la Gestión de Emergencias (HESOCODICE)", funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/.

This clinical trial seeks to provide high level of evidence on the efficacy of ActiveMatrix primarily on spinal surgical site infection rate.

Infection control and health-care-associated infections and Safety of medical service providers Evidence based management of common medical and surgical problems

The aim of the project is to evaluate the effectiveness, on the skin cleanliness of the patient on arrival at the operating room, of an intervention aimed at improving the performance of the preoperative shower, for patients undergoing a planned surgical intervention in an orthopedic surgery department, digestive, gynecological, thoracic, or vascular.

Post-operative wound complications in abdominal surgery have a major impact on patient outcomes and the real impact of Closed incision negative pressure therapy (CINVt) is not clear in the literature moreover concerning its potential economic benefits The hypothesis of this study is that CINPt has the potential to reduce Surgical Site Infections. Secondly the investigators aim to study the economic impact of CINPt used after abdominal emergency laparotomies.

Postpartum infection if a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality and surgical site infections are some of the common complications following cesarean section. This study aims to determine the effect of Steri3X on the incidence of cesarean section SSI at Regional One Hospital.