Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Elective Colorectal Anastomosis

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Colorectal surgery is highly associated with septic complications, therefore, multiple approaches have been used to reduce this complications, one of the most used is mechanical bowel preparation. Lately multiple studies have suggested that mechanical bowel preparation might not be necessary.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Entitlement to the Mexican Institute of Social Security

• Signed informed consent

• Patients with colorectal pathology who needed primary elective colorectal anastomosis

• Body mass index >18, and < 31

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who dropped out from the study or withdrew the informed consent

• Patients who did not accepted the surgical procedure

• Patients who had been submitted to surgery before entering the protocol

• Patients who need a colostomy