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Surgical Site Preparation in Subjects Undergoing Medical Thoracoscopy

NCT05430308 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2026-03-18

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Summary

Medical thoracoscopy is the preferred procedure for performing pleural biopsy in patients with pleural effusions that remain undiagnosed after pleural fluid analysis. Surgical site infections (SSI) and empyema are among the important complications of the procedure.

At author's center, povidone-iodine is used for surgical site preparation during MT. The investigators hypothesized that chlorhexidine-alcohol would be superior to povidone-iodine in reducing the rate of infectious complications following thoracoscopy. In this study, the authors propose to investigate the efficacy of chlorhexidine-alcohol scrub in preventing post procedural infectious complications in subjects undergoing medical thoracoscopy

Conditions

  • Medical Thoracoscopy

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Chlorhexidine scrub

Surgical site selected for performing the thoracoscopy will be cleaned with 4%w/v chlorhexidine gluconate solution for 3 minutes

PROCEDURE

Povidone-iodine

The surgical site selected for performing the thoracoscopy will be just cleaned with normal saline followed by 10% w/v povidone-iodine solution

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-04-18
Primary Completion
2025-08-31
Completion
2025-10-31

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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