Will Cleaning the Bowel With an Enema Before Vaginal Prolapse Surgery Prevent Complications?
- Conditions
- Colon Cleansing
- Interventions
- Procedure: enema
- Registration Number
- NCT00981539
- Lead Sponsor
- Illinois Urogynecology, Ltd.
- Brief Summary
Traditionally, many gynecologic surgeons have asked patients to perform a cleansing enema the night before a vaginal surgery done to repair pelvic organ prolapse (dropped bladder, dropped uterus). The belief is that there is then less or no stool present at the vaginal incision and less chance of infection of the wound by bowel bacteria. However, not all surgeons follow this practice. There is no evidence in the medical literature if one way is better than the other. In this study, patients scheduled for vaginal surgery to correct prolapse will be randomly assigned to perform an enema or not to perform an enema.
- Detailed Description
The factors to be measured will be wound infection rates, and need to cleanse an incision of escaped stool.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 310
- female, AND
- undergoing vaginal surgery for prolapse.
- pregnant women,
- age younger than eighteen,
- male sex, OR
- concurrent abdominal surgery.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description treatment : receives pre operative enema enema one arm will receive pre operative enema
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method wound infection rate 6 weeks post op
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method rate of contamination of surgical field by stool during surgery day of surgery
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Illinois Urogynecology, LTD.
🇺🇸Park Ridge, Illinois, United States