Triclosan-antibacterial Sutures Efficacy on the Incidence of Surgical Site Infection in Clean-contaminated Wounds

Phase 4 Unknown 430 enrolled ClinAmygate Al Safwa Hospital · collab Al Zohour Hospital · collab Al-Menia Univeristy Hospital · collab MSKMC Univeristy Hospital · collab Misr University for Science and Technology · collab

RandomizedParallel-groupDouble-blindPrevention

Summary

Comparing the incidence of SSI in cases using coated Polyglactin 910 suture with Triclosan and cases using Polyglactin 910 suture without Triclosan in clean-contaminated wound surgery

Timeline

Start: 2020-02-05
Primary completion: 2023-10-10
Completion: 2024-01-30

Publications

Results Ahmed I, Boulton AJ, Rizvi S, Carlos W, Dickenson E, Smith NA, Reed M. The use of triclosan-coated sutures to prevent surgical site infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature. BMJ Open. 2019 Sep 3;9(9):e029727. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029727.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Triclosan	Small molecule	—	—

Indications

No indication recorded.