NCT00972153

Device to Reduce Surgery Site Contamination

Reduction of Airborne Particulate in the Surgical Field Using Directed Local Airflow

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nimbic Systems, LLC · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to determine whether the Air Barrier System device reduces airborne particulate and airborne colony forming units present at a surgery site.

Detailed description

The Air Barrier System is a device that uses localized clean air flow to shield a surgery site from ambient airborne contamination. This study examines the hypothesis that the Air Barrier System can reduce the presence of airborne colony-forming units (e.g. bacteria colonies) and particulate at the surgery site.

Conditions

• Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Air Barrier System Device	Device is deployed adjacent to the surgery site and activated so that the filtered air emits over the surgery site.
DEVICE	Sham Air Barrier System device	Device is deployed to the surgery site, but the airflow is not activated. This intervention is used to determine any effects that the presence of the device alone may have.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-05-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2009-09-04
• Last updated: 2012-03-16
• Results posted: 2010-05-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States