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Prophylatic Effect Preoperative Antibiotics With Mechanical Bowel Preparation in SSIs

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Oral Antibiotics
Postoperative Complications
Surgical Site Infection
Colorectal Cancer
Bowel Preparation
Interventions
Drug: Neomycin,metronidazole
Registration Number
NCT03856671
Lead Sponsor
Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University
Brief Summary

Surgical site infection (SSI) is a major postoperative complication after abdominal surgery especially in colorectal field, which significantly increases length of stay (LOS), readmission incidence and expense. Therefore, identification of the effective method to reduce SSI incidence is critically important. Combination of oral antibiotics and mechanical bowel preparation was reported with lower SSIs and LOS in some retrospecitve data analysis, however a prospective randmized controlled trial was absent. Herein, the current randomized controlled trial comparing MBP+OA with MBP alone in postoperative complications in order to guide clinical practise was conducted.

Detailed Description

Surgical site infection (SSI) is a major postoperative complication after abdominal surgery especially in colorectal field, which significantly increases length of stay (LOS), readmission incidence and expense. Therefore, identification of the effective method to reduce SSI incidence is critically important. Colonic bacterial flora is the major cause of SSIs after elective colorectal procedures. For more than century, preoperative mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) has been utilized as it could theoretically decrease bacterial load within the surgical field, thus reduce risk of SSIs. Later afterwards with widely application of antibiotics, combination of oral antibiotics (OA) and MBP was conducted by surgeons to further decrease rates of SSIs. But SSIs still occurs despite of forehead mentioned methods, the best bowel preparation mode remains controversial. Since 2005, several RCTs and meta-analysises demonstrated MBP alone was not associated with reduced SSIs compared with no bowel preparation, while postoperative ileus, anastomotic leakage and other complications incidence increased paradoxically. Nevertheless, function of preoperative oral antibiotics remains debated. Recently, combination of oral antibiotics and MBP has been evaluated in several retrospective studies and demonstrated a significant decrease in the rate of SSIs. However, bias existence in these trials may affect result as information was exacted from national database without detailed matching. Herein, current randomized controlled trial comparing MBP+OA with MBP alone in postoperative complications in order to guide clinical practise was conducted.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
309
Inclusion Criteria
  • Older than 18 years old,
  • Undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery due to malignancy.
Exclusion Criteria
  • No elective surgery
  • Intra-abdominal infection
  • Combination of other infectious surgery such as appendectomy, cholecystomy
  • Sever comobidity such as uncontrolled hypertention and diabetes mellitus
  • Peritoneal implantation and matastasis
  • Radiotherapy history.
  • Colorectal surgery due to benign lesions
  • Allergic to antibiotics or PEG
  • Preoperative dermatosis may interfere wound healing
  • Long time application of corticosteroid
  • Autoimmune disease may affect wound healing
  • Patients refuse to enroll

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
oral antibiotics+mechanical bowel preparationNeomycin,metronidazoleLiquid diet and polyethylene glycol with 2L water was administrated orally 1 day before surgery. A combination of neomycin 1g and metronidazole 0.2g every 6 hours was also administrated. Enteroclysis was conduted for patients on surgical morning.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Surgical site infection incidence30 days after surgery

Include the superficial, deep and organ space infection.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Length of hospital stay after surgery30 days after surgery

Length of hospital stay

Antibiotics associated complications30 days after surgery

Allergy, antibiotics associated diarrhea

Bowel recovery time7 days after surgery

Time interval from surgery to flatus and defecation

Other posteroperative complications30 days after surgery

Ilues, DVT, anastomotic fistula, hemorrhage, pulmonary infection

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen university

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Guanzhou, Guangdong, China

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