NCT03601741

Use of Disposable Stethoscope Covers for Reduction of Stethoscope MRSA Contamination

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1 (actual)
• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a prospective pilot study using a randomized, controlled, single blinded, crossover trial design, evaluating the effect of daily antimicrobial stethoscope diaphragm covers versus uncovered stethoscope. Stethoscopes will be cleaned Sani-cloth germicidal disposable wipes which are effective against MRSA. Each participant will then be randomly assigned to 7 days in either the intervention or the control arm. At the end of the 7 days participants stethoscopes will be cleaned again. This will be followed by another 7 days in the arm that they are not in during the first 7 days. The primary endpoint is MRSA colony count from stethoscope diaphragms cultures at 7 days, focusing on the difference between the intervention and the control periods. The secondary endpoint is the rate of hospital acquired MRSA infection in patients treated by residents during each period.

Conditions

• MRSA

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Daily Antimicrobial Stethoscope Diaphragm Cover	Patients will receive package with instructions to use stethoscope cover, and are then instructed to switch in 7 days
OTHER	Uncovered Stethoscopes	Patients receive instruction to begin with no covers, and are then instructed to switch in 7 days

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-08
• Primary completion: 2019-04-05
• Completion: 2019-04-05
• First posted: 2018-07-26
• Last updated: 2019-09-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States