Study Evaluating Severe Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) Following Contaminated Or Dirty-infected … (NCT00906074) | Clinical Trial Compass
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Study Evaluating Severe Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) Following Contaminated Or Dirty-infected Abdominal Surgery
180 participantsStarted 2009-02
Plain-language summary
This is an observational study to evaluate the relative importance of the known risk factors for severe surgical site infections (SSIs) on the development of the more severe SSI cases, and to describe the demographic, clinical features, etiology and the management and outcome of patients suffering from severe SSIs in Spain.
Who can participate
Age range18 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
* Age of or above 18 years.
* Admitted to a General Surgery Ward for elective or emergency abdominal surgery.
* Contaminated or dirty-infected surgical procedures.
* Only for cases, they will have to present symptoms and signs of a surgical site infection (SSI) (within 0-30 days) after abdominal surgery.
* Only for controls, patients must be free of SSI after 30 days from surgery, regardless of whether they are still in the hospital or being observed as an outpatient in the external clinic.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Age under 18 years.
* American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) score of 5 or above.
* Surgical implant in place.
* Clean or clean-contaminated surgical procedures.
What they're measuring
1
Percentage of Participants With Pre-surgical Morbidities
Timeframe: Baseline (Pre-surgical)
2
Percentage of Participants Who Received Pre-surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis
Timeframe: Baseline (Pre-surgical)
3
Percentage of Participants Who Underwent Emergency Surgery or Scheduled Surgery
Timeframe: Day 0 (day of surgery)
4
Percentage of Participants With Classification of Risk of Surgical Infection of Clean-contaminated, Contaminated or Dirty
Timeframe: Day 0 (day of surgery)
5
Type of Surgeon
Timeframe: Day 0 (day of surgery)
6
Percentage of Participants With Infection
Timeframe: Day 0 (day of surgery) up to 30 days post surgery
7
Percentage of Participants Who Showed Clinical Improvement of SSI
Timeframe: Day 0 (day of surgery) up to 30 days post surgery
8
Percentage of Participants With Post-surgical Drainage