Alcoholic Chlorhexidine Compared to Povidone Iodine to Limit Perineural Catheter Colonisation

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2018-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Implementation of perineural catheters may lead to infection by catheter colonization. Catheters may be colonized by the bacteria present on the skin. This is most often commensal organisms as Staphylococcus or gram negative bacilli. In a large study of 1416 peripheral nerve catheters, 28.7% of catheters were cultured positive. This colonization is most often silent because in the same study only 3% of patients had signs of local inflammation and one psoas abscess was observed (0.07%). The germs are most often coagulase negative staphylococci (61%) and gram negative bacillus (21.6%).

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hôpital Raymond Poincaré
• Treatments: Cadexomer iodine; Chlorhexidine; Chlorhexidine gluconate; Iodine; Povidone; Povidone-Iodine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient classified I, II or III by the American Society of Anesthesiology

• Perineural catheterization use for pain management

• Patient should have an orthopaedic surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• An allergy to povidone iodine

• An allergy to alcoholic Chlorhexidine 2%

• Pregnant women

• Breastfeeding women