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Filter by:This is a prospective, within-subject randomized, single blinded study designed to follow up to forty-two (42) qualified and consenting adult females, 18-65 years of age scheduled for elective breast reduction surgery using a standard inverted Wise (inverted "T") incision pattern
Surgical site infections (SSI) constitute an important health concern in low and middle income countries, leading to prolonged hospital stay and increased costs. Previous studies indicate that in Africa up to 1/3 of patients undergoing surgery may be affected by a postoperative infection. The development and implementation of context-specific SSI prevention guidelines is important to reduce this complication. To deploy efficient context-specific measures, data on epidemiology and microbiology of these infections are needed. This means to adapt the prevention measures to the context-specific risk factors for surgical site infections in resource-limited settings, and to give locally adapted recommendations on antimicrobial therapy based on local resistance patterns. However, data in this respect are scarce in low and middle income countries. This present study will contribute to the needed epidemiology and microbiology data on SSI in Cameroon. It will be carried out as a prospective cohort study at the Mbouo Protestant hospital in the West Region of Cameroon. The incidence, microbial spectrum and respective antimicrobial resistance of SSI as well as the risk factors of SSI will be systematically investigated. The study will include 300 patients at the Hôpital Protestant de Mbouo (HPM) who underwent surgery and gave their informed consent for inclusion, the timeframe is 04/2021 - 11/2021. An active SSI surveillance system will be put in place for 30 postoperative days to diagnose SSI. Expected outcomes: The incidence of SSI is likely to be higher than 10%. Concerning risk factors, preoperative bodywashing and perioperative antibioprophylaxis is expected to be protective against SSI. Up to 1/3 of SSI are expected to occur after hospital discharge. For the microbial spectrum, a high proportion of Staphylococcus aureus is likely to be found. For the antimicrobial resistance no estimation can be give as data is non-existent in that region from the literature.
Peritonsillar abscesses are major infections around the tonsils. The abscess is a collection of pus that can cause a large amount of pain and discomfort, which can result in trouble swallowing and drinking. Peritonsillar abscesses must be treated because they can spread to other areas in the throat and neck, which can cause difficulty breathing, can even spread throughout the rest of the body. Over the years, many different treatments have been used for peritonsillar abscesses. In the past, the entire tonsil was removed in the operating room while the patient was asleep. This surgery can cause a large amount of bleeding, and so now smaller surgeries are performed while the patient is awake. Small needles are put through the open mouth and into the abscess to drain it. As well, a small cut can be made to drain the infection. These last two treatments cause less problems than removing the whole tonsil, but there are still risks. The surgeries are uncomfortable for patients and they can cause anxiety and fear. There are also large blood vessels nearby that can be injured. In the last few years, treatment of peritonsillar abscesses without surgery has been studied. Patients receive strong antibiotics and anti-inflammatories (known as steroids) and they may not need surgery. It is not yet known if this treatment works as well as surgery. In order to figure this out, research must look at both options compared against each other in a large study with many patients. However, large research studies require a lot of planning, and so smaller studies are helpful to figure out if the larger study is even possible. The current study would be a small trial to plan for a larger study later on. Patients will be randomly treated with either medications alone or with surgery. The main part of the study will look at issues with planning the future study, such as how long it takes to fill out forms, how many missing results there are at the end of the study, and how patients and doctors feel about taking part in the research study. The future large study will look at how well the treatment options reduce pain, how fast patients are able to swallow normally again, how often patients need to change treatments, and whether there are differences in quality of life with the treatment options. Because these things will be looked at in detail in the future large study, the investigators will also look at them during this small planning study, but the investigators will not be able to tell for certain which treatment is better until the large study is completed. The results of this study are important for planning and performing the larger study, and they are important for getting future funding to do that study. Large studies are very expensive, and major funding organizations, such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, look for this early data when deciding who should get funding. The results of both this pilot study and the future larger study could be practice changing for how peritonsillar abscesses are treated, and will benefit both Nova Scotians and potentially the rest of world.
Obtaining Likest-pain scale score on postoperative day one after injection of local anesthetic into incision sites of a laparoscopic/robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy
This is a retrospective, observational (non-interventional), single-arm, single-centre, post-market clinical investigation designed to verify clinical performance and safety of Mepilex Border Post-Op when used according to clinical practice for post-operative wounds in a large and broad population. The clinical investigation will consist of a retrospective medical record review, which will be completed with data from up to 450 female and male adult subjects who were treated with Mepilex Border Post-Op following elective hip or knee replacement at one clinic in Belgium between January 2016 and February 2021.
The purpose of the study is to study the incidence of surgical site infection when patients are given local versus parenteral antibiotics
INTRODUCTION Liquid skin adhesive (LSA) has benefits over other closure methods. Especially it is less invasive, quicker to apply, and better in cosmesis. Also LSA applied wounds need no post-care and its water-proof nature allows patients to take a shower immediate postoperative periods. While traditional sutures and skin staples are invasive and have infection chance requiring regular wound dressings, LSA is resistant against both water and microbial infection without need for postoperative dressings. Thus LSA-applied wounds need no professional care saving wound management cost. This study investigated not only the safety and efficacy of LSA, but also the cost-effectiveness in the context of total wound management resources including man-power, time, and cost. STUDY OBJECTIVE Primary end point of this study is time requiring to manage surgical wound calculated as man hour. Secondary end points are wound related complication and cost for management of surgical wound. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS The target number of the enrollment were calculated under the hypothesis that the wound management time for stapler group would be 1560 sec and that for LSA group be 264 sec with 10% drop-out rate. The sample number calculation formula of the t-test for independent 2 groups were used. For two-sided validation with the significance level of 0.05, and the power of 0.8, 29 patients for each group were estimated.
This randomized trial will use a Negative Pressure Wound Therapy device or standard wound closure, in participants with gastrointestinal neoplasms, to measure the rate of surgical site infections
Prospective, single-blinded, single-center, parallel group, randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess rate and frequency of wound healing and associated financial savings, when using Medaxis debritom+ versus standard of care as a choice of debridement method, where both arms follow normal wound care practice in use of advanced wound care treatments.
This is a prospective, randomized, controlled, double-blinded clinical feasibility study of subjects that are being treated for Gustilo and Anderson Type II or IIIA or IIIB Tibial Fractures