Clean Laceration Clinical Trial
Official title:
Prophylactic Antibiotic Treatment for Hand Lacerations Involving Flexor and/or Extensor Tendon
The investigators assume that simple hand lacerations involving flexors or extensors tendons, do not require prophylactic antibiotic treatment to prevent wound infection.
Hand lacerations are divided to "complicated" which involves tendons, nerves, bones, and
joints, and "simple" which involves only cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue.
prophylactic antibiotic should not be given in a clean simple lacerations, and should be
given when a bone is involve (open fracture). But there is not enough data, weather
prophylactic antibiotic treatment should be given when only tendons are involved. The
investigators will examine 2 groups of 30 patients each with clean hand lacerations involving
tendons. One group will be treated with prophylactic antibiotic and the other wont be
treated, randomly. The investigators assume that the rate of wound infection wont be
different between the 2 groups.
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