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Filter by:The goal of this prospective, multicentre, double-blind, randomized clinical trial is to compare intermittent cefoxitin administration to loading bolus followed by continuous infusion for surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in colorectal surgery. The main objective is to demonstrate the superiority of a loading dose of cefoxitin followed by continuous infusion over standard of care boluses in reducing SSI within 30 days after colorectal surgery
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of prophylactic antibiotic use for TACE and occurrence of postoperative liver abscess. There would be two comparison groups. Current standard of care treatment at PKLI&RC (as per local guidelines) would be given to all patients receiving TACE for the intervention group or 'antibiotic group' (i.e., Inj. Ceftriaxone 1g, intravenous × stat). While no antibiotic would be given to the 'no antibiotic group'.
After a surgical operation patients may have an infection in the operation wound, the bladder, kidneys or lungs. To stop these infections patients are given a dose of antibiotic before their operation. Unfortunately, the amount of antibiotic available to fight infections falls throughout an operation, being removed from the body by the kidneys. Therefore, antibiotic levels may not be high enough to stop infections. A way of maintaining antibiotic levels throughout an operation is to give a single dose of antibiotic and then a constant amount of antibiotic by an infusion from the start to the end of the operation. A small single centre test study was previosuly undertaken into antibiotic dosing during bowel operations. One group of patients had a single dose of antibiotic before their operation. The other group had a single dose plus a constant dose of antibiotic until the end of their operation. The project showed patients were happy to take part and that the study was safe. The study helped us identify the correct amounts of antibiotic needed for the patients given the single dose plus a constant dose of antibiotic. This study was conducted at one hospital only, and wasn't big enough to confirm if one treatment was better than another or if results would be similar in other hospitals. This study will build on the pilot study in a larger feasibility trial, the Colo-Pro_2 trial. It will be run in three hospitals so can assess if the trial design works at different hospitals. We will see if the results suggest one treatment, single dose of antibiotics before an operation, or single dose plus a constant dose of antibiotics throughout an operation, is better. This study will include up to 180 patients having bowel operations as they have a high risk of infection. All patients will be given the same antibiotic which is called cefuroxime. Cefuroxime is already used to stop infections after surgery. Using the same antibiotic in all patients means it is possible to know if differences in the number of infections are due to how the antibiotic is given. The number of infections that happen up to 30 days after operations will be counted. Staff looking after patients after the operation and those counting the infections will not know, unless necessary, the treatment patients received. This means the results won't be influenced by knowledge of the treatment received.
This study aims to show that lack of antibiotic prophylaxis to those undergoing bladder Botox injections is not significantly inferior to administering prophylaxis. By proving this, the investigators aim to decrease antibiotic use in this setting to combat the growing issue of antibiotic resistance. Participants will be randomized to antibiotic or no treatment arm. Those randomized to the treatment arm will receive oral antibiotics for 2 days pre-treatment, on the treatment day, and 2 days post-treatment. Participants will return for a follow up appointment approximately 2 weeks after treatment to assess for urinary tract infection (UTI) symptoms. They will be called again at 6 weeks for follow up.
The Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Patients Undergoing Elective Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA): Multi-Center Trial is a study that will compare the effectiveness of various perioperative strategies for antibiotic delivery as prophylaxis for periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) and surgical site infection in elective primary TKA. The investigators hypothesize that a single dose of prophylactic antibiotic administered within 60 minutes before the incision is not an effective way to prevent PJI in elective primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The investigators also hypothesize that the prolonged delivery (24 hours) of antibiotic prophylaxis after surgery does not further reduce the incidence of PJI in elective primary TKA. Duke University is the only site recruiting both primary total knee arthroplasty and unilateral knee arthroplasty.
Asymptomatic bacteriuria (AB) is the isolation of a bacterium in a sample of urine appropriately collected from a person who does not have signs or symptoms of urinary infection. It is common in diabetic women, in pregnant women, in men over 60 years and in patients with spinal cord injury. There is clinical evidence that AB should be treated in patients who will be operated on with urologic surgery because of the risk of presenting infectious complications; however, the timing of initiating antibiotic therapy has not been established, even in some studies the prophylaxis has been considered from one to seven days prior to the procedure, without determining the differences in the outcome for each one of the interventions and causing an undue and risky use of antibiotics. A randomized, parallel-design, single-masked clinical trial will be performed to compare and analysis the bloodstream infections, surgical site infections, readmissions and hospital stay in three intervention groups, 1) those receiving antibiotics during the previous 5 days to the procedure; 2) 3 days prior to the procedure; and 3) those who receive only a single dose of antibiotic on the day of the procedure. The main expected result is to identify the timing of initiation of antibiotic prophylaxis in urological procedures in patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria, with the purpose of diminishing the bloodstream and of the surgical site infections. If it is scientifically demonstrated that those patients who receive a single dose of antibiotic on the same day of the procedure, have the same safety and effectiveness compared to the other two groups, would reduce hospital stay, surgical waiting time and indiscriminate use of antibiotics that generate multidrug-resistant microorganisms, thus generating an impact on Public Health and on the quality of care.