Prevention of Neurosurgical Wound Infections

Completed 214 enrolled Oregon Health and Science University

RandomizedParallel-groupTriple-blindTreatment

Summary

The goal of this study is to determine whether injecting the antibiotic vancomycin directly into surgical wounds can decrease the rate of infection following implantation of neurosurgical devices.

Timeline

Start: 2009-05-13
Primary completion: 2014-12-19
Completion: 2014-12-19

Publications

Background Miller JP, Acar F, Burchiel KJ. Significant reduction in stereotactic and functional neurosurgical hardware infection after local neomycin/polymyxin application. J Neurosurg. 2009 Feb;110(2):247-50. doi: 10.3171/2008.6.17605.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Vancomycin	Other / unclassified	5 mg/ml	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.