Comparison of Two Preoperative Antiseptic Solutions Alcohol Based in Abdominal Elective Surgeries

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2021-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Pragmatic randomized clinical trial comparing Iodine Povacrylex based on alcohol to Chlorhexidine also based on alcohol in efficacy and security to diminish frequency of surgical site infections in major abdominal elective clean contaminated wounds. Will be held in a third level university, high volume national public hospital in San Salvador, El Salvador.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Maria-Virginia Rodriguez Funes; Universidad de El Salvador
• Treatments: Anti-Infective Agents, Local; Cadexomer iodine; Chlorhexidine; Chlorhexidine gluconate; Ethanol; Iodine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Elective surgery categorized as clean contaminated surgery Major abdominal

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Exclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesia III-IV

• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

• Inguinal hernias classification I, II

• Obese subjects with Body Mass Index more than 35 or malnourished

• immunocompromised subjects

• neoplasia Preoperative hospital stay more than 7 days allergic to any of the solutions used in the trial