NCT06176573

Pre-operative Versus Post-operative Vaginal Cleansing With Chlorhexidine Solution in Prevention Post-Cesarean Section Infection

Pre-operative Versus Post-operative Vaginal Cleansing With Chlorhexidine Solution in Prevention of Post-Cesarean Section Infectious Morbidity at a Teaching Hospital in a Resource Poor Setting: A Randomized Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki · Other Government
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 44 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Maternal infectious morbidity is a common complication of cesarean delivery, especially in a poor recourse setting like ours. This study was done to compare the effectiveness of preoperative vaginal cleansing with immediate postoperative vaginal cleansing with chlorhexidine solution in preventing post-cesarean infectious morbidities. Randomized trial involving 120 consented women who had elective or emergency cesarean sections at term, 60 in each group. Group 1 had preoperative while group 2 had postoperative vaginal cleansing with 1% chlorhexidine.

Detailed description

Background: Maternal infectious morbidity is a common complication of cesarean delivery, especially in a poor recourse setting like ours. This study was done in a tertiary hospital in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria over a period of 5 months. The State is inhabited mainly by rural farmers and petty traders. Literacy is low and poverty is common with poor maternal health indices. Aim: To compare the effectiveness of preoperative vaginal cleansing with immediate postoperative vaginal cleansing with chlorhexidine solution in preventing post-cesarean infectious morbidities. Method: Randomized trial involving 120 consented women who had elective or emergency cesarean sections at term, 60 in each group. Group 1 had preoperative while group 2 had postoperative vaginal cleansing with 1% chlorhexidine. Research Randomizer software was used to generate 120 numbers. Sixty numbers were randomly generated from a pool of 120 numbers and were assigned to group 1 while the remaining 60 numbers were automatically assigned to group 2. Both groups received antibiotics and anterior abdominal wall scrubbing. There were monitored for symptoms and signs of endometritis, wound infection and pyrexia till discharge.

Conditions

• Post Cesarean Infectious Morbidity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Chlorhexidine	Pre-operative and post-operative vaginal cleansing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-01
• Primary completion: 2021-08-31
• Completion: 2021-08-31
• First posted: 2023-12-19
• Last updated: 2023-12-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Nigeria