Tailored Antibiotics Prophylaxis for Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2011-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Tailored antibiotic prophylaxis according to the individual throat swab culture could reduce the peristomal infection rate

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Cheng Kung University
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Cefuroxime; Cefuroxime axetil

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• The patients who receive PEG by pull method in our hospital, a tertiary transferring center, will be included

Exclusion Criteria:

• The exclusion criteria for entry are inability to place the gastrostomy for technical reasons, such as oropharyngeal deformity or esophageal stricture. The patients who receive PEG by percutaneous push method will be excluded. The patients will be also excluded if active infection and fever are identified, and the PEG is delayed until the infection is brought under control.