The Use of Antibiotics After Hospital Discharge in Septic Abortion

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2007-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The use of antibiotics in post-partum infection has been abbreviated. After 48 hours of clinical improvement, the patient is discharged from the hospital without antibiotics. No trials has been found in cases of septic abortion.

The purpose of the present study is to verify the need of antibiotics after clinical improvement in cases of septic abortion.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Doxycycline; Metronidazole

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients admitted at the hospital with a diagnosis of infected abortion and about to be discharged from the hospital.

• Use of intravenous antibiotics (gentamicin and clindamycin)

• Improvement of the clinical conditions for at least 48 hours (no fever, eating and walking normally, reduced vaginal bleeding)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwilling to participate in the study.

• Use of antibiotics previously within one week.

• Presence of tubo-ovarian abscess.

• Known allergy to doxycycline or metronidazole.