Improving Case Selection for Perioperative S. Aureus Transmission Surveillance to Reduce Surgical Site Infections

S. Aureus Transmission Clinical Trial

Official title:

Improving Case Selection for Perioperative S. Aureus Transmission Surveillance to Reduce Surgical Site Infections

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04299737
• Other study ID #: 201911589
• Status: Withdrawn
• Start date: March 9, 2020
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: July 2021
• Source: University of Iowa
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The first patient in the dyad will receive the bundle, which includes patient decolonization methods, environmental cleaning in the OR, a hand hygiene system located on the IV pole for the anesthesia provider, and intravascular catheter and syringe tip disinfection practices. The second patient in the dyad will receive usual care. Both patients will be surveyed by obtaining swab samples at the beginning and end of the surgery using the OR PathTrac kits. The OR PathTrac software (RDB Bioinformatics, Omaha, NE 68154) uses algorithms to guide analysis of the S. aureus isolates and to identify transmission events. Transmission stories are processed by the software to generate transmission maps that identify improvement successes and failures. It also identifies actionable steps to improve the bundle. The perioperative infection control team then uses this information to continually optimize the bundle, and the software to measure the effect.

Description:

Surgical site infections increase patient morbidity and healthcare costs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes improved basic preventive measures to reduce bacterial transmission and infections for patients undergoing surgery.

Patients undergoing planned oncologic gynecological and plastic surgery will be entered as dyads into a worksheet each day that will rank and select the optimal cases. The research assistants consent both patients in the dyad to the study while they are in the Day of Surgery Admissions area. The first patient in the dyad will receive the bundle, which includes patient decolonization methods, environmental cleaning in the OR, a hand hygiene system located on the IV pole for the anesthesia provider, and intravascular catheter and syringe tip disinfection practices. The second patient in the dyad will receive usual care. Both patients will be surveyed by obtaining swab samples at the beginning and end of the surgery using the OR PathTrac kits. The OR PathTrac kits are obtained from and analyzed for S. aureus isolates by RDB Bioinformatics. The OR PathTrac software (RDB Bioinformatics, Omaha, NE 68154) uses algorithms to guide analysis of the S. aureus isolates and to identify transmission events. Transmission stories are processed by the software to generate transmission maps that identify improvement successes and failures. It also identifies actionable steps to improve the bundle. The perioperative infection control team then uses this information to continually optimize the bundle, and the software to measure the effect.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: August 1, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 120 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients scheduled to undergo oncologic gynecological and plastic surgery requiring general/regional anesthesia.

• informed, written consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients <18 years of age.

• Patients scheduled to undergo procedures outside of the surgical service lines listed above.

• Patients not requiring general or regional anesthesia.

• Patients who have a documented allergy or have an allergic reaction to to iodine, shellfish, or chlorhexidine.

• Patients who have not provided informed, written consent.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• S. Aureus Transmission
• Surgical Wound Infection

Intervention

Other:
• Treatment Bundle (as defined below)
Patient decolonization within one hour of incision, improved environmental cleaning (frequency and quality, including but not limited to targeted use of no touch disinfection with UV-C treatment), provider hand hygiene leveraging proximity, improved catheter disinfection, and surveillance optimization.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Iowa	Iowa City	Iowa

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Randy Loftus	RDB Bioinformatics

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (21)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Time course in S. aureus transmission decline with the intervention.	S. aureus transmission events by time.	Up to 52 weeks
Secondary	Systematic selection of sequential cases in operating rooms for surveillance to reduce sample size and increase power.	The outcome is the proportional reduction in the necessary sample size of pairs of cases achieved by systematic selection of sample cases as compared with random selection.	Up to 52 weeks

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