Use of Preoperative and Postoperative Antimicrobial Treatment

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Trial end date: 2022-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

In this study, patients undergoing ear surgery (cochlear implantation, stapedotomy, tympanoplasty) will be randomized to one of two antibiotic treatment groups.

One group will receive a single treatment with an antibiotic at induction

The other group will receive the single intravenous treatment, plus a one week course or oral antibiotic

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Willing to participate in the study

• Undergoing standard ear surgery (Stapedotomy, cochlear implantation, tympanoplasty and tympanomastoidectomy)

Exclusion Criteria:

• multiple allergies to antibiotic substances

• therapy with an antibiotic substance within the last 6 weeks

• prior radiation to the head and neck patients undergoing revision surgery

• Any use of post-operative antibiotics (oral, intravenous, topical) for reason which do not include surgical site infection