Blue Light Therapy of C. Acnes

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

This proposal aims to investigate a novel light-based treatment to reduce morbidity in shoulder surgical patients. This has potential to improve outcomes and reduce health care utilization associated with infectious complications of shoulder arthroplasty. Participants will be healthy male volunteers at least 18 years of age. They will be on study for approximately 2 days.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Treatments: Benzoyl Peroxide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy male

• 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy to benzoyl peroxide or chlorhexidine

• <18 years of age

• Previous history of shoulder infections

• Antibiotics taken within one month of research visit

• Immunocompromised state

• Active cancer

• Diabetic

• Skin lesions or abrasions over the deltopectoral interval

• Topical cortiosteroid treatment to either shoulder or or systemic corticosteroid treatment within 2 weeks of research visit

• Topical benzoyl peroxide treatment to either shoulder within 2 weeks of research visit

• Blue light therapy treatment to either shoulder within 2 weeks of research visit

• Prior incision over the deltopectoral interval of either shoulder

• Contraindication to blue light treatment