• Comparison of Blood Culture Contamination Rates

Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Blood Culture Contamination

Treatments: Procedure: disinfection of the surface that the blood culture is taken

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05576233

skin antisepsis study

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, blood culture contamination rates will be compared in patients who used povidine/iodine-alcohol and chlorhexidine/alcohol, which were applied before the blood culture was taken by randomized two methods routinely used in this study.

Full description

Detection of the pathogen in blood cultures as soon as possible reduces mortality significantly by providing timely initiation of treatment1. However, when skin antisepsis is not performed properly, an increase in the rate of contamination is observed. In this study, it was planned to compare the contamination rate of two antiseptics, povidine iodine/alcohol and Chlorhexidine/alcohol used as skin antisepsis, in the blood culture taken.

Full randomization" will be applied in the study. Multiples of 3 of the patients to be included in the study will be included in the "Chloraprep" group, the remaining patients and multiples of 2 will be included in the "povidine/iodine" group. . According to the number of samples determined for each institution, patients who came to the outpatient clinic during data collection and accepted to participate in the study will be randomly selected.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients who will be hospitalized at SBU Izmir Dr. Patients who are hospitalized in the Pediatric Infection Service of Behçet Uz Pediatrics and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, and who will require blood culture indications will participate in the study If they are willing to

Exclusion criteria

• The patents with central lines will be excluded.
• The patient who were transferred from ICU's will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

1.The culture taken after disinfection with providing/iodine

Active Comparator group

Description:

1.Blood cultures routinely performed with alcohol/povidine-iodine

Treatment:

Procedure: disinfection of the surface that the blood culture is taken

2.The culture taken after disinfection with chlorhexidine/alcohol

Active Comparator group

Description:

2. Blood cultures routinely performed with chlorhexidine/alcohol

Treatment:

Procedure: disinfection of the surface that the blood culture is taken