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Device to Reduce Surgery Site Contamination

NCT00972153 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 29

Last updated 2012-03-16

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Summary

The objective of this study is to determine whether the Air Barrier System device reduces airborne particulate and airborne colony forming units present at a surgery site.

Conditions

  • Surgery

Interventions

DEVICE

Air Barrier System Device

Device is deployed adjacent to the surgery site and activated so that the filtered air emits over the surgery site.

DEVICE

Sham Air Barrier System device

Device is deployed to the surgery site, but the airflow is not activated. This intervention is used to determine any effects that the presence of the device alone may have.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nimbic Systems, LLC

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Gregory Stocks, MD · Fondren Orthopaedic Group

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-05-31
Primary Completion
2009-09-30
Completion
2009-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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