Triclosan Coated Suture Wound Closure for Peripheral Vascular Surgery: a Prospective Multicenter Study

North Karelia Central Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgical Wound Infection

Treatments: Procedure: regular sutures for surgical wound closure; Procedure: triclosan coated suture for surgical wound closure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01101789

NKCH-surg-006

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective randomized multicenter study which purpose is to determine whether triclosan-coated sutures for wound closure after lower limb vascular surgery would reduce the incidence of surgical wound infections.

Enrollment: 276 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient undergoing peripheral vascular surgery procedure

Exclusion criteria

• patients refusal

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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276 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

triclosan

Active Comparator group

Description:

triclosan-coated sutures

Treatment:

Procedure: triclosan coated suture for surgical wound closure

control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

sutures without triclosan-coating

Treatment:

Procedure: regular sutures for surgical wound closure