Many solutions are used for cleaning the skin of a patient previous to a surgery. Although the efficacy of clorhexidine has been proved in other surgical procedures, there is only a retrospective study in cesarean section (they report no benefit of one solution over the other). The investigators would like to evaluate the difference in surgical site infection in patients after cesarean section comparing preparation of the skin with clorhexidine versus povidone.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
800
Cleaning of the surgical site previous to the incision with a clorhexidine solution for five minutes.
Cleaning of the surgical site previous to the incision with a povidone solution for five minutes.
Saint Thomas Maternity Hospital
Panama City, Provincia de Panamá, Panama
Surgical Site infection (SSI)
The patients will be evaluated for evidence of surgical site infection before leaving the hospital, three (3) days after surgery. The presence of fever, suppurative secretion through the wound or cutaneous changes compatible witn infection will be considered a surgical site infection (SSI). This outcome will be evaluated with a qualitative variable (presence of SSI). The patients will be classified in accordance as "With SSI" or "Without SSI".
Time frame: 3 days
Hospitalization
The patients will be evaluated for evidence of surgical site infection 15 days post surgery. The need to admit the patient to the hospital for management of a surgical site infection will be classified with "Hospitalization - Yes/No".
Time frame: 15 days
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