Is an Antibiotic Prescription Required After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2020-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The need for antibiotics to reduce surgical site infection after cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis is still controversial. The researchers aimed to investigate the effect of antibiotics prescribed on surgical site infection when discharged to patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Konya Meram State Hospital; Konya Training and Research Hospital
• Treatments: Ampicillin; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Sulbactam; Sultamicillin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Acute calculous cholecystitis patients over the age of 18 will be included.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients who have been elective for symptomatic cholelithiasis,

• Patients who are hospitalized with ACC and who undergo late LC, have decompensated systemic disease,

• Patients with ASA 4,

• Patients who underwent surgery for early LC due to ACC diagnosis and left laparoscopic method for reasons such as difficult dissection and underwent open cholecystectomy