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Clipping Versus No Hair Removal and the Risk of Surgical Site Infections

NCT00975377 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1678

Last updated 2015-09-07

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Summary

The objective of this study is to determine whether hair clipping is non-inferior to no hair removal in preventing superficial, deep, and organ space surgical site infections (SSI) in patients undergoing various general surgical procedures, evaluated after surgery by an assessor blinded to treatment allocation. Additional goals include evaluating wound complications that arise in patients that have hair clipped and in patients that do not have hair removed and determining the impact of clipping versus no hair removal and SSI versus no SSI on length of hospital stay.

Conditions

  • Surgical Site Infection
  • Superficial Surgical Site Infection
  • Deep Surgical Site Infection
  • Organ/Space Surgical Site Infection

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Hair clipping

Patients randomized to the hair clipping cohort will be clipped using an Allegiance 4413 hair clipper. Hair removal will occur on the day of surgery by one of the preoperative nursing staff, immediately prior to the scheduled operation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Gundersen Lutheran Health System

    collaborator OTHER

  • Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Todd J. Kowalski, MD · Gundersen Lutheran Health System

  • Shanu N. Kothari, MD · Gundersen Lutheran Health System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2015-02-28
Completion
2015-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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