Does it Make Sense to Give Postoperative Antibiotics to Patients With an Uncomplicated Acute Cholecystitis

University Hospital, Ghent50 enrolled

Overview

Each patient is preoperatively treated once profylactic with intraveneous antibiotics. Postoperatively, one group will be treated with intraveneous antibiotics during 5 days. The other group will receive no antibiotics.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Uncomplicated Acute Cholecystitis

Interventions

Whether or not giving postoperatively antibiotics to patients with an uncomplicated acute cholecystitisDRUG

Whether or not giving postoperatively antibiotics to patients with an uncomplicated acute cholecystitis.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Uncomplicated acute cholecystitis \< 5 days(confirmed by echography and blood sample) * \> 18 years old Exclusion Criteria: \-

Locations (2)

University Hospital Ghent

Ghent, Belgium

Hamad Medical Corporation

Doha, Qatar

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Postoperative complications (abces, infection of the wound)

Time frame: day 2, day of discharge and dag 21

Secondary Outcomes

Duration of hospitalisation

Time frame: Day O to day of discharge

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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