NCT00876005

Supplemental Oxygen and the Risk of Surgical Site Infection

Perioperative Supplemental Oxygen and the Risk of Surgical Site Infection

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,202 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a study to see whether increasing the oxygen concentration during and after a cesarean section decreases the infection rate.

Detailed description

This is a double-blinded prospective randomized,controlled trial to evaluate whether using a higher concentration of oxygen during and after surgery helps to decrease the wound infection rate in patients undergoing cesarean sections.

Conditions

• Surgical Site Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Oxygen by mask	Postoperatively, an aerosol face mask is used to deliver oxygen at 80%
OTHER	Oxygen by mask	Postoperatively, an aerosol face mask is used to deliver oxygen at 30%

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-08-01
• Primary completion: 2011-04-01
• Completion: 2011-04-01
• First posted: 2009-04-06
• Last updated: 2016-10-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States