Addition of Pre-wound Closure Povidone Iodine Wash Versus Direct Wound Closure Effect on Surgical Site Infections

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-01-18
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

A Randomized controlled trail to To assess the efficacy of povidone-iodine wash before wound closure in preventing surgical site infections.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ain Shams University
• Treatments: Povidone; Povidone-Iodine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients (≥ 18 years old)

• Open and minimally invasive surgeries

• Emergency (any unplanned admission) and elective (planned admission) surgical procedures

• Clean, Clean-Contaminated, Contaminated, Dirty wounds

• Inclusion surgery list according to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) operative procedure code mapping

Exclusion Criteria:

• Povidone-iodine allergy

• Surgeries for infected wounds.

• Exclusion surgery list according to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) operative procedure code mapping.