Surgeons' Satisfaction With Two Types of Tinted Chlorhexidine Applicators (Chloraprep® and Nex Clorex 2%)

Cristina Fernandez Perez

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Satisfaction; Product Quality

Treatments: Other: Surgical tinted Nex Clorex 2% applicators; Other: Surgical tinted Chloraprep® applicators

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03508492

CA-IQZ

Details and patient eligibility

About

The development of surgical site infections (SSI) in clean-contaminated surgery is regarded as being preventable. Known to be effective in the prevention of surgical site infection are the adequate sterilization of the surgical instruments, asepsis during operation, antibiotic prophylaxis where indicated, and certainly the preparation of the skin at the incision site. During the last decades the use of alcoholic chlorhexidine has replaced povidone iodine for preoperative skin preparation. In order to improve the way alcoholic chlorhexidine is applied, pharmaceutical industry has developed new applicators.

This randomized study was conducted to know the surgeons' satisfaction within the use of two tinted applicators: Chloraprep® and Nex Clorex 2%

Enrollment: 22 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteer surgeons from colon, cardiac, knee and hip surgical departments. Once surgeon has enrolled the study, patients will be selected if they have hospital admission with scheduled surgery and have signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Urgent surgeries
• Outpatient surgery
• Surgical complex cures
• Mixed interventions: exploratory or sequential
• Unscheduled surgeries
• Rejection of participation
• Chlorhexidine or isopropyl alcohol hypersensibility patients
• If any patients changed its mind after signing the informed consent will be removed from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 4 patient groups

Knee surgeons

Active Comparator group

Description:

Four knee surgeons

Treatment:

Other: Surgical tinted Nex Clorex 2% applicators

Other: Surgical tinted Chloraprep® applicators

Hip surgeons

Active Comparator group

Description:

Six hip surgeons

Treatment:

Other: Surgical tinted Nex Clorex 2% applicators

Other: Surgical tinted Chloraprep® applicators

Cardiac surgeons

Active Comparator group

Description:

6 cardiac surgeons

Treatment:

Other: Surgical tinted Nex Clorex 2% applicators

Other: Surgical tinted Chloraprep® applicators

Colon surgeons

Active Comparator group

Description:

6 colon surgeons

Treatment:

Other: Surgical tinted Nex Clorex 2% applicators

Other: Surgical tinted Chloraprep® applicators