Reducing Intraoperative ESKAPE Transmission Through Use of a Personal Hand Hygiene System — ESKAPE  

Surgical Wound Infection Clinical Trial

Official title: Reducing Intraoperative ESKAPE (Enterococcus, S. Aureus, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, and Enterobacter Spp.) Transmission in the Adult Operating Room Via Use of a Personal Hand Hygiene System Optimized by OR PathTrac

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators hypothesize that the use of a personal hand hygiene system (SafeHavenTM) by anesthesia providers in the adult operating room, combined with a novel infectious pathogen tracking system (OR PathTrac) will decrease participant exposure to pathologic bacteria in the adult operating room.

Clinical Trial Description

This will be a prospective, single center, unmasked, controlled before and after study.

Intervention Arm: Use of SafeHaven hand hygiene system in the operating room

Control Arm: Standard of care hand hygiene

Operating Room Selection: Two patients (case-pair) having surgery in a serial manner in a randomly selected operating room will be evaluated for detection of pathogenic bacteria. The operating room for investigation will be randomly selected through the following process:

1. All the operating rooms with scheduled surgeries in the South Operating Rooms on a particular day will be entered into a random number generator (example: operating rooms 2, 3, 5, 7).

2. The random generator will sort these operating rooms into a rank list (example:

operating rooms 5, 3, 2, 7).

3. The investigators will start at the top of this list and work down until the first operating room meeting all inclusion criteria is found (example: operating room 5 only has one surgery, operating room 3 has pediatric surgery, operating room 2 meets inclusion criteria)

4. This process will be duplicated for each case-pair

The goal of the study is to map transmission of bacteria through the operating room and compare mapping with the SafeHaven Hand Hygiene system to mapping without the SafeHaven Hand Hygiene system. Thus, case-pairs will be randomized to the same assignment. For example, subject 1 and 2 will have surgery in South Operating Room 8 and both will be randomized to the control group. The first 10 case-pairs will be assigned to the control arm and the second 10 case-pairs will be assigned to the intervention arm. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Communicable Diseases
• Cross Infection
• Infections
• Surgical Wound
• Surgical Wound Infection
• Wound Infection

• NCT number: NCT04900298
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Oregon Health and Science University
• Contact: Brandon M Togioka, MD
• Phone: 503-494-4572
• Email: togioka@ohsu.edu
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2022
• Completion date: June 30, 2026