Will Cleaning the Bowel With an Enema Before Vaginal Prolapse Surgery Prevent Complications?
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Official title
Do Preoperative Enemas Prevent Complications in Vaginal Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery?
Brief summary
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Traditionally, many gynecologic surgeons have asked patients to perform a cleansing enema the night before a vaginal surgery done to repair pelvic organ prolapse (dropped bladder, dropped uterus). The belief is that there is then less or no stool present at the vaginal incision and less chance of infection of the wound by bowel bacteria. However, not all surgeons follow this practice. There is no evidence in the medical literature if one way is better than the other. In this study, patients scheduled for vaginal surgery to correct prolapse will be randomly assigned to perform an enema or not to perform an enema.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00981539
- Recruitment status
- Not listed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 310 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Aug 31, 2009
- Primary completion
- Aug 31, 2010
- Completion
- Aug 31, 2010
- Last update posted
- Sep 21, 2009
2009 – 2010
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Urogynecology, LTD. | Oak Lawn | Illinois | 60453 | Recruiting |
| Illinois Urogynecology, LTD. | Park Ridge | Illinois | 60068 | Recruiting |
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