NCT00555815

Intraoperative Hygiene Measures and Surgical Site Infections

Intraoperative Hygiene Measures and Rates of Surgical Wound Infection in General Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,032 (actual)
• Sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Surgical site infections are associated with high morbidity and cost Hypothesis: Extended intraoperative hygiene measures decrease surgical site infections in general surgery compared to standard hygiene measures.

Detailed description

Intraoperatively two types of hygiene measures were performed randomly: standard and extensive. Standard hygiene measures included empiric accepted measures (e.g. gloves, masks, disinfection). Extensive hygiene measures included among others: double gloving, astro caps, extensive disinfection, extensive intraoperative rinsing. In addition, intraoperative adherence to the rules of asepsis were registered by an independent observer. Patients were followed for 30 days.

Conditions

• Surgery
• Surgical Site Infection
• Hygiene
• Discipline
• Colorectal Surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-07-01
• Completion: 2007-01-01
• First posted: 2007-11-09
• Last updated: 2007-11-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland