Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Clean Surgery. Impact on Surgical Site Infection

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-03-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a randomized control study of antibiotic uses in clean non prosthetic surgeries. One group will be given antibiotic prophylaxis, other will receive a placebo. The primary outcome will be the rate of surgical site infection in 2 groups.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Rwanda
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Cefazolin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• - All elective non-prosthetic surgical procedures such as hernia, thyroid, hydrocele, undescended testes surgery, removal of orthopedic implants, low risk breast surgical procedures and other all procedures deemed to be clean.

Exclusion Criteria:

• - Emergency cases

• Any patient with American Society of Anesthesiologists Score (ASA)>2

• Procedures lasting more than 2 hours

• Patients who were taking antibiotics 2 days prior to operation