NCT01741649

Clorhexidine Versus Povidone for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection After Cesarean Section

Clorhexidine Versus Povidone for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection in Patients After Cesarean Section. Randomized, Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 800 (actual)
• Sponsor: Saint Thomas Hospital, Panama · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Many solutions are used for cleaning the skin of a patient previous to a surgery. Although the efficacy of clorhexidine has been proved in other surgical procedures, there is only a retrospective study in cesarean section (they report no benefit of one solution over the other). The investigators would like to evaluate the difference in surgical site infection in patients after cesarean section comparing preparation of the skin with clorhexidine versus povidone.

Conditions

• Surgical Wound Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Clorhexidine	Cleaning of the surgical site previous to the incision with a clorhexidine solution for five minutes.
PROCEDURE	Povidone	Cleaning of the surgical site previous to the incision with a povidone solution for five minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-03-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2012-12-05
• Last updated: 2013-05-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Panama