Surgical Site Infections After Liver Transplantation Based on Perioperative Antibiotics

Phase 3 Completed 102 enrolled University of Virginia National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) · collab

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

This study will be to prospectively determine differences in Surgical Site Infection (SSI) if a prolonged course of post-operative antibiotics are used following liver transplantation.

Timeline

Start: 2009-03
Primary completion: 2015-10
Completion: 2015-10

Publications

Chan S, Ng S, Chan HP, Pascoe EM, Playford EG, Wong G, Chapman JR, Lim WH, Francis RS, Isbel NM, Campbell SB, Hawley CM, Johnson DW. Perioperative antibiotics for preventing post-surgical site infections in solid organ transplant recipients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 Aug 4;8(8):CD013209. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013209.pub2.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Comparator	piperacillin / tazobactam	Unknown	3.375 g	—

Indications

No indication recorded.