Assessing Parenteral Antibiotics Versus Single-time Intra-operative Intra-dermal Antibiotic Administration for Prevention of SSI

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

Summary

The purpose of the study is to study the incidence of surgical site infection when patients are given local versus parenteral antibiotics

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The Grant Medical College & Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals
• Treatments: Ceftriaxone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients above the age of 18 years

• Patients undergoing open and laparoscopic elective, CDC class I & II surgeries

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients exhibiting hypersensitivity reaction to ceftriaxone

• Patients who are immunocompromised (retroviral disease and corticosteroid use)

• Patients not consenting to be a part of this study

• Pregnancy

• Febrile illness or leucocytosis at the time of surgery

• Planned for staged/multiple interventions during the hospital stay (endoscopies, image-guided biopsies etc)

• Patients with a possible septic focus distant from the surgical site such as diabetic foot ulcers.