Post-operative Antibiotics; Effects on Risk of Infection After Cochlear Implant Surgery

Odense University Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Postoperative Infection

Treatments: Drug: Antibiotic

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06177444

23/46599

Details and patient eligibility

About

Currently there is little consensus regarding postoperative antibiotic prophylactic treatment and its effect on the postoperative infection rate after Cochlear implantation. The literature on this subject is contradictory, and very limited. The aim is to assess the impact of postoperative antibiotic treatment on post-operative infection rate, and thereby discuss if postoperative antibiotic treatment has any benefits in the preventing treatment against infectious complication.

Enrollment: 920 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 120 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients undergoing cochlear implantation at this facility from 2010 to 2022

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

920 participants in 2 patient groups

Postoperative prophylactics

Description:

Patients receiving postoperative prophylactic antibiotic treatment

Treatment:

Drug: Antibiotic

non-postoperative prophylactics

Description:

Patients NOT receiving postoperative prophylactic antibiotic treatment