Active clinical trials for "Wound Infection"

This study aims to asses whether the rate of surgical wound infections in vascular surgery procedures involving exposure of the proximal femoral artery can be reduced using a different skin closure technique.

This is a three arm randomized trial. The aim is to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of chlorhexidine and polyhexamethylene biguanide oral antiseptics on the microorganisms of the oral cavity. A total of 30 healthy volunteers will be enrolled and randomly allocated to control group (CG, n=10), which will be instructed to rinse the mouth with 10ml of a sterile saline solution for one minute, to chlorhexidine group (ClG, n=10), which will be instructed to rinse the mouth with 10ml of an 0.12% chlorhexidine solution, for one minute, or to polyhexamethylene biguanide group (PG, n=10), which will be instructed to rinse the mouth with 10ml of an 0.07% polyhexamethylene biguanide solution, for one minute. Samples of saliva will be collected before the mouth wash and after 30, 60 and 180 minutes. Samples will be plated on manitol agar, mitis salivarius agar, EMB agar and Sabouraud agar. Samples will be processed by a blinded microbiologist.

This study is aimed at determining whether or not the use of a wound suction device placed on the cesarean incision instead of a standard sterile dressing will decrease the prevalence of wound complications and wound infections in women at high risk for post operative complications. The study will first look at the infection and wound complication rate in women 6 months prior to the start date of the study by reviewing charts of women who have undergone a cesarean section. The study involves placing a single use, portable wound vacuum over the cesarean section incision and keeping it in place for 72h. The investigators will then compare the rates of wound infection and wound complications between these two groups. It is our hypothesis that negative pressure wound systems will decrease the wound infection and complication rate in this high risk population.

To evaluate the rate of infections after cesarean sections in patients with premature rupture of membranes after vaginal wash either with an antiseptic solution (clorhexidine solution) vs. saline solution (placebo).

The study evaluates the role of supplemental hyper-oxygenation given perioperatively on wound site infection after appendectomy. Half of the patients received ≥50% oxygen and half of them received no oxygen during the surgical procedure.

The purpose of the study is to study the incidence of surgical site infection when patients are given local versus parenteral antibiotics

The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of supplemental oxygen at 80% FIO2 can reduce the incidence of surgical site infection after emergency cesarean section.

Cardiac surgery patients have a high risk to suffer from postoperative infections. Some studies have shown, that humoral and cellular factors are associated with perioperative immunodysfunction and can increase the risk of postoperative infections. Monocytes in the blood and, especially alveolar macrophages are important for an adequate host defence. In studies the investigators have shown that hemodynamic parameters have a significant influence on the probability to develop postoperative infections. The aim of the study is to investigate, whether cardiac surgery patients have an altered immune function after surgery that is predictive for the latter development of subsequent infections and whether they benefit from a goal-directed volume and hemodynamic therapy.

Surgeons easily get wound infections. Most wound infections will be cured by applying medicines and changing dressing in very short period of time. But some wounds are severely contaminated combined with fat liquefaction, crateriform ulcer and large undermined lacuna, so changing dressing takes a very long time. In order to better change the dressing, it needs to expose the wound thoroughly, which requires to completely open the healed skin, so the healing will be slowed down. Some scholars lay stress on prevention. Wound infection control concerns prevention--not therapy--of an infrequent but expensive kind of surgical morbidity.(1.2)Some scholars think that the main armamentarium of the attack is the use of topical anti-infectives, which invade the bacteria where they reside, and, consequently, reduce their numbers and promote wound healing.(3)For example, silver is reemerging as a viable treatment option for infections encountered in burns, open wounds, and chronic ulcers. But it is expensive and is difficult to acquire silver-containing dressings. And Recent findings, however, indicate that the compound delays the wound-healing process and that silver may have serious cytotoxic activity on various host cells. (4) As High concentration of sugar solution, honey appears to heal partial thickness burns more quickly than conventional treatment (which included polyurethane film, paraffin gauze, soframycin-impregnated gauze, sterile linen and leaving the burns exposed) and infected post-operative wounds more quickly than antiseptics and gauze.(5)This study involve the use of another high-concentration of sugar solution (HCSS) to lavage infected wounds when changing dressings.

The purpose of this study is to determine if the application of a negative pressure dressing intraoperatively (Prevena; KCI, Inc) to vascular groin incisions decreases the wound complication rate in high risk patients.