Status:
RECRUITING
Exploring if Patients Can Safely and Easily Swab Their Own Surgical Wounds at Home
Lead Sponsor:
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Nottingham
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Conditions:
Cardiac Surgery
Infection, Soft Tissue
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The goal of this observational feasibility study is to learn if patients can safely, acceptably, and effectively collect their own wound swabs at home to detect clinically significant organisms in adu...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Feasibility Study
- Cardiac surgery ≥18 years old patients with a central chest wound, where the wound is a closed wound - assessed by the research nurse
- Patients having elective or urgent surgery
- Patients who have been discharged home or to a care home
- Willing and able to provide written informed consent prior to participation in the clinical investigation.
- Willing and able to comply with all study related procedures, with or without digital resource/internet access.
Exclusion
- Feasibility Study
- Cardiac surgery patients with open wounds extending beyond skin level, or where deep tissue, organs or implants are visible, wounds with constant or heavy discharge of fluid, wounds leaking pus at the time of the video consultation.
- Patients having emergency or salvage surgery
- Patients still in hospital
- Patients with a dressing covering their wound at the time of the video consultation.
- Congenital or acquired immunodeficiency, bone marrow disease, diabetes, autoimmune conditions requiring immunosuppressive treatment, any immunosuppressive medication at the time of consent or within the last 4 weeks before consent.
- Undergoing active cancer treatment at time of consent/ or planning to start cancer treatment within the study period or completed cancer treatment within the last 4 weeks of the study commencing.
- Patients who lack capacity to consent
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 6 2026
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
February 1 2026
Estimated Enrollment :
40 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT07200401
Start Date
January 6 2026
End Date
February 1 2026
Last Update
January 9 2026
Active Locations (2)
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1
Royal Sussex County Hospital
Brighton, United Kingdom, BN2 5BE
2
Harefield Hospital
Harefield, United Kingdom, UB9 6JH