An interventional study of Subcutaneous washing and no subcutaneous washing in Surgical Site Infection, sponsored by Hadassah Medical Organization. Recruiting at 1 site in Israel. Open to female participants, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-03-19.
Sponsored by Hadassah Medical Organization · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if antiseptic washing prior to skin closure during cesarean section reduces rates of surgical site infection.
intraoperative washing is a common practice in other surgical fields and several studies have shown efficacy in reducing postoperative infection rates. no randomized control trial has tested this intervention during cesarean section.
The main questions we aim to answer are:
Does subcutaneous antiseptic washing reduce the rates of surgical site infection? Does antiseptic washing improve scar healing? Does antiseptic washing reduce hospital stay, postpartum fever rates and readmission cases?
Researchers will compare subcutaneous antiseptic washing to no intervention to see if surgical site infection rates reduce
Participants will:
consent to participate in the trial Visit the postpartum clinic 30 days after surgery
670 studies on the registry are indexed under Surgical Wound Infection; 141 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 600 is above the median of 200 across 514 interventional studies indexed under Surgical Wound Infection.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Subcutaneous washing with antiseptic solution: Chlorhexidine gluconate 0.2%
Procedure: Subcutaneous washing
No subcutaneous washing
Procedure: no subcutaneous washing
subcutaneous washing with chlorhexidine gluconate prior to skin closure
no washing
surgical site infection
SSI infection rates
Time frame: 30 days after surgery
hospital stay
length of hospital stay
Time frame: 30 days after surgery
wound healing
assessment of the healing according to Southampton criteria: presence of inflammation, erythema or discharge
Time frame: 30 days after surgery
postpartum fever
fever recording
Time frame: 30 days after surgery
Plan to share: No
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