Status:

UNKNOWN

Determining the Necessity for Postoperative Antibiotics After Salivary Stent Placement

Lead Sponsor:

Our Lady of the Lake Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans

Conditions:

Salivary Duct

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

Salivary duct stent placement is a common practice to maintain duct patency after salivary duct repair or interventional sialoendoscopy; procedures performed to manage salivary duct pathology such as ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • All adult patients (18 years of age or older) who are undergoing salivary duct surgery and stent placement at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center

Exclusion

  • Patients who are unwilling to consent to the study and/or to being placed in a randomized arm of either receiving post-operative antibiotics or not receiving post-operative antibiotics
  • Patients with acute infections at the time of surgery
  • Patients who are immunocompromised
  • Patients who are recruited but then have early dislodgement of the stent
  • Patients who do not complete their postoperative antibiotic therapy due to intolerance or antibiotic side effects. However, data on these patients will be recorded to provide an observational results that will support the need for this investigation on antibiotic use.
  • Patients who are in the non-post operative antibiotic arm but choose to put themselves on antibiotics without consultation from the physician

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 15 2018

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

December 31 2024

Estimated Enrollment :

40 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03333408

Start Date

June 15 2018

End Date

December 31 2024

Last Update

November 1 2023

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Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70808