Does it Make Sense to Give Postoperative Antibiotics to Patients With an Uncomplicated Acute Cholecystitis

Ghent University Hospital (UZ)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Uncomplicated Acute Cholecystitis

Treatments: Drug: Whether or not giving postoperatively antibiotics to patients with an uncomplicated acute cholecystitis

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00323648

2006/111

Details and patient eligibility

About

Each patient is preoperatively treated once profylactic with intraveneous antibiotics. Postoperatively, one group will be treated with intraveneous antibiotics during 5 days. The other group will receive no antibiotics.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Uncomplicated acute cholecystitis < 5 days(confirmed by echography and blood sample)
• > 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

postoperatively antibiotics

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: Whether or not giving postoperatively antibiotics to patients with an uncomplicated acute cholecystitis