Does Simethicone Improve Operative Field in Gynecological Operations

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2017-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Mechanical bowel preparation aims to decrease the volume fecal content in the colon, which thereby decreases the total colony count of bacteria, thus, decreasing peritoneal contamination in case of bowel injury, improving the access to the surgical field and facilitating intraoperative bowel manipulation

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Simethicone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Gynecological operations for benign conditions as hysterectomy, ovarian cystectomy and myomectomy.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. History of allergic reaction to study drugs.

2. More than one scar of previous operation.

3. Suspicious of malignancy.

4. Psychiatric disorders.