💬In plain words
What the trial is, and whether it could suit you
Anesthesia and surgical guidelines recommend the administration of a surgical antibiotic prophylaxis for patients undergoing "clean" surgery. The prescribed antibiotic should target the bacteria most commonly found in surgical site infections (SSIs) and the duration of administration should not exceed 24 hours to minimize the ecological risk of bacterial resistance emergence. Guidelines provide a framework for the administration of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis but their effectiveness is regularly re-evaluated by measuring the rates of SSIs and the microorganisms responsible for infectious complications after surgery.
The majority of interventions required the use of first or second generation cephalosporins as surgical antibiotic prophylaxis. For patients with allergy to beta-lactams, clindamycin and vancomycin are proposed as alternatives. In the patients with methicillin-resistant
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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients undergoing any elective surgery for which vancomycin is recommended in the guidelines as an alternative to beta-lactams including: neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, orthopedic surgery, vascular surgery, penile and testicular surgery, gastric banding procedure in digestive surgery.
This inclusion criteria can lead to the inclusion of patients who undergo a re-intervention provided that the re-intervention is not due to a suspected or proven infection and that the patient was not included in LOVip at the time of his/her first intervention;
* Age ≥ 18 years-old;
* Known allergy to beta-lactams AND/OR suspected or proven MRSA colonization. Proven MRSA colonization is defined as a positive patient sample (any type of swab or biological fluid) for MRSA within 3 months prior to surgery. MRSA colonization is suspected when the patient undergoing surgery has received antibiotic treatment within 3 months prior to surgery or is undergoing re-intervention more than 5 days after the first surgery. MRSA is defined as a strain of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to oxacillin or cefoxitin, predicting non-susceptibility to all classes of beta-lactam antimicrobials (except anti-MRSA cephalosporins) (6). In contrast, MSSA is defined as an oxacillin sensitive strain of Staphylococcus aureus;
* Informed consent of the patient;
* Affiliated to a social security system or equivalent.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Surgery for suspected or proven SSI (definition of SSI provided on chapter 3.6.1 Primary endpoint as defined by (5, 7)) according to international definitions;
* Obesity defined by a body mass index (BMI) \> 35 kg/m2 or a body weight \> 100 kg;
* Chronic kidney disease defined as glomerular filtration rate (GFR) \< 60 ml/min per 1.73m2;
* Known allergy to linezolid or vancomycin;
* Hematologic malignancy;
* Declared pregnancy or breastfeeding;
* Patient under legal protection regime for adults;
* Patient denying consent;
* Patient already included in LOVip for a previous surgery.
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What it tests
- Vancomycin Injection
- Linezolid Injection
Anesthésie Réanimation - Hôpital Nord (AP-HM)
Marseille, France
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