Effectiveness of Alcohol Swabs for Preventing Infections During Vaccination

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2018-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Alcohol is used to disinfect the skin prior to injections in order to prevent infections caused by bacteria on the skin being injected within tissue. At present, however, clinical trials do not demonstrate a clinical impact of using or not using alcohol swabs on infections and infection symptoms calling into question the practice of using it prior to all injections. These studies are methodologically flawed, and do not specifically examine vaccine injections. The present study is being undertaken to provide some preliminary data for the risk of infection and infection symptoms when alcohol swabs are not used to perform vaccine injections.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Toronto
• Treatments: Ethanol; Vaccines

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• healthy pediatric patients undergoing routine vaccinations

Exclusion Criteria:

• no contra-indications to vaccination or alcohol swab,

• ability to understand English and consent to the study