Testing antiseptic skin cleaning during hip or knee revision surgery
Part of Bones, joints & muscles, Skin clinical trials.
This study checks whether an antiseptic method for cleaning the skin before surgery is safe and helpful for patients having a repeat (revision) hip or knee replacement. It may help reduce the risk of infection related to surgery.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are 18 years or older
- You are scheduled for a revision hip or knee replacement surgery that replaces at least one prosthetic part
- Your revision surgery is not being done because of a prosthetic joint infection or a wound complication
- You do not have a past prosthetic joint infection in the same hip or knee
- Your surgeon does not have any current concern that you might already have a prosthetic joint infection
- You have no known allergy to iodine, chlorhexidine, or alcohol
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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