Effectiveness for Interventions to Minimize Surgical Site Infections

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2012-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate two different simple and inexpensive extra treatments during colorectal surgeries to see if this will reduce the rate of post operative infections

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Dallas VA Medical Center
• Treatments: Gentamicins

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• VA patients getting transabdominal,elective colorectal procedures

• willing and capable of giving self informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients unable to give informed consent

• emergency colorectal procedures

• transanal procedures

• patients who have contaminated or dirty wounds that would preclude attempts at skin closure at the conclusion of the procedure

• patients undergoing appendectomy

• patients undergoing intraabdominal procedures not including surgical resection of the colon or rectum (ie.procedures involving small bowel , stomach)

• patients with pre/op creatinine clearance less than 20ml/min

• patients with known allergy or hypersensitivity to gentamicin

• patients that have received gentamicin within 2 weeks of potential study date