Status:
WITHDRAWN
Antibiotic Therapy After Incision and Drainage for Abscess
Lead Sponsor:
Wake Forest University
Conditions:
Abscess
Eligibility:
All Genders
6-18 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Background: Skin abscesses are a growing problem in the general pediatric population around the world. While the standard treatment for an abscess/boil is incision and drainage, many physicians also p...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Any child (age 6 months-18 years old) that:
- does not meet criteria for hospitalization and
- has only one localized abscess (\>/= 2 cm of erythema and induration), which is clinically judged to be amenable to incision and drainage. (i.e., on clinical exam their is fluctuance, erythema, induration, and/or purulent drainage)
- has an abscess that is ± 7 days from onset, who requires surgical incision and drainage for a skin and soft-tissue abscess
Exclusion
- children \< 6 months of age
- children who require inpatient hospitalization - children with a medical condition in which adjuvant antibiotic therapy would be accepted standard of practice (i.e., history of neutropenia, cardiac surgery, indwelling prosthesis)
- children with a previously diagnosed immunodeficiency (HIV, Chronic Granulomatous Disease, Job's syndrome, chronic steroid use)
- children hospitalized within 2 months of presentation (due to higher rate of nosocomial MRSA colonization)
- abcesses located on the head or neck
- children with history of a sulfa allergy
- abscesses caused by animal bite wounds
- children with Diabetes Mellitus
- abscesses arising from tattooing
- abscesses arising from vaccination sites
- pregnant females
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00900510
Start Date
May 1 2009
End Date
May 1 2011
Last Update
November 6 2017
Active Locations (1)
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Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157