Prevention of Neurosurgical Wound Infections

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-12-19
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The goal of this study is to determine whether injecting the antibiotic vancomycin directly into surgical wounds can decrease the rate of infection following implantation of neurosurgical devices.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University
• Treatments: Vancomycin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• deep brain stimulators (DBS)

• spinal cord stimulators (SCS)

• motor cortex stimulators (MCS)

• vagus nerve stimulators (VNS)

• peripheral nerve stimulators (PNS)

Exclusion Criteria:

• allergies to vancomycin

• immunocompromise or taking immunosuppressant drugs

• currently taking aminoglycoside antibiotics, such as amikacin, gentamicin, neomycin, streptomycin or tobramycin

• diagnosed renal failure

• currently undergoing chemotherapy

• pregnancy

• non-english speakers

• unable to return for follow-up, or unable to be contacted by telephone