A study to determine whether powder antibiotics locally placed on would site, along with conventional intravenous antibiotics, decrease post surgical infection rate or not
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Trauma,Spine surgery,Joint replacement surgery
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2011/08/001951
- Lead Sponsor
- Ganga Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 1844
Inclusion Criteria
All joint replacement patients
All non infected spine patients
Hemiarthroplasty, All upper limb plating of closed fractures
Exclusion Criteria
Open injuries in trauma
Revision joint replacement surgeries
Patients with suspicion of existing infection
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Infection incidence percentage, both deep and superficial.Timepoint: For 1 year post surgery
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Factors like, duration of surgery, tourniquet time, prior infections, blood transfusion, haemoglobin count, comorbidities, etc, will also be considered while analysing for infection percentageTimepoint: For 1 year post surgery