Prophylactic Antibiotic Treatment for Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Mesh Repair: Necessary or Not?

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Hernia, Inguinal

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02083939

SHEBA-12-9550-DR-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to find out whether it is necessary to prophylactically treat patients undergoing laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs with antibiotics. Our hypothesis is that it is not necessary to pretreat patients with antibiotics if the operation is minimally invasive with a mesh placed at the defect.

Full description

The investigators plan to follow up at least 100 patients who did not receive antibiotics prior to their inguinal hernia repair and compare their outcome to 100 patients who did receive prophylaxis. The investigators mainly will be analyzing the incidence of surgical site infections as evidenced by swelling, redness, pain, warmth or other signs deemed by the surgeon.

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, unilateral or bilateral

Exclusion criteria

• Those requiring antibiotics for the surgery;
• Those patients who have experienced surgical site infections from previous surgeries

Trial design

5 participants in 2 patient groups

Antibiotic Prophylaxis

Description:

This cohort will receive antibiotic prophylaxis prior to the hernia repair

No Antibiotic Prophylaxis

Description:

This cohort will not receive antibiotic prophylaxis prior to the surgery