Preoperative Nasal Swabs From Pediatric Patients

Official Title: “Double-Blind Prospective Study Concerning the Connection Between Positive Nasal Culture for Staphyloccoci in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Any Elective Surgery in the Out-Patient Clinic in the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Over a Period of One Year”

We intend to take a nasal swab from each pediatric pre-operative patient in our out-clinic with the intention of looking for a connection between positive operative incisions and a positive nasal swab. The patients will be in the out-patient clinic for a few hours, and will be examined post-operatively after one week. Those with positive nasal swabs will be advised to apply a nasal cream (Mupirocin)in their noses for one week. Our hypothesis is that there is a correlation between positive nasal swabs and positive incision infections.

Intervention(s) in this Clinical Trial

• Procedure: Nose swab

Arms, Groups and Cohorts in this Clinical Trial

• : 1
  • All pre-operative pediatric patients in our outpatient clinic

Inclusion Criteria:

• All pediatric patients attending outpatient surgery clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

• All others

Gender Eligibility for this Clinical Trial: Both

Minimum Age for this Clinical Trial: N/A

Maximum Age for this Clinical Trial: 16 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted for this Clinical Trial?: No

Lead Investigator: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center Other

Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on February 09, 2012

Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00646919

Study ID Number: HY56/2007

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00646919

Health Authority: Israel: Ministry of Health