Bacterial Colonization of Suction Drains Following Spine Surgery

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01803490

Enrollment

224

Registered

2013-03-04

Start date

2013-01-31

Completion date

2019-04-27

Last updated

2020-05-27

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Conditions

Surgical Site Infection, Closed Suction Drains

Brief summary

Closed suction drains are commonly used following surgery, if the wound is expected to discharge significant amounts of fluid. To this date, no evidence base exists as to the exact post operative time period or discharge volume necessitating presence of a drain. In orthopedic common practice, drains are removed on the second post operative day, fearing the drain will serve as a point of entry for nosocomial infection. In this study, drains will be left in place as long as daily discharge volume exceeds 50cc, regardless of the amount of days following surgery. Daily cultures and antibiotic levels will be taken from the drains receptacle, to determine if and when the drains is colonized by aerobic bacteria.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

No minimum to 120 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* All patients undergoing spine surgery that requires suction draining,and do not meet the

Exclusion criteria

for this study.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Growth of bacteria in drain fluids	up to 10 days per patient, (from first post operative day until removal of drains).

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
antibiotic level in drain fluid	up to 10 days per patient (from first post operative day until removal of drains).

Countries

Israel

Outcome results