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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 May 2023
Main ID:  PACTR201606001689132
Date of registration: 21/06/2016
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: JOSHUA N ONDARI
Public title: Unblinded randomized control trial on Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Gustilo II Open Tibia Fractures at Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya
Scientific title: Unblinded randomized control trial on Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Gustilo II Open Tibia Fractures at Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya
Date of first enrolment: 29/09/2014
Target sample size: 84
Recruitment status: Complete
URL:  https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=1689
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Parallel: different groups receive different interventions at same time during study,Randomised,Block randomization was used to allocate patients to one of the two arms of treatment. A list of random numbers were then computer-generated and the numbers between 1 and 6 selected until a total of 21 random numbers were obtained. The blocks were assigned to the random numbers to obtain an allocation sequence which was used to allocate patients to the two different treatments.,NOT BLINDED  
Phase:  Not Applicable
Countries of recruitment
Kenya
Contacts
Name: JOSHUA    ONDARI
Address:  HOSPITAL ROAD 00202 NAIROBI Kenya
Telephone: +254722686298
Email: jondari59@gmail.com
Affiliation:  UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
Name: MOSES    MASIKA
Address:  HOSPITAL ROAD 00202 NAIROBI Kenya
Telephone: +254737770306
Email: mosmasika@gmail.com
Affiliation:  UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: ¿Patients with isolated Gustilo grade II open tibial fractures.
¿Patients aged between 18 and 80 years. Pediatric patients were excluded because of fixed dosage regimen in the study protocol.

Exclusion criteria: ¿ Gustilo II open tibial fractures whose wounds could not be closed primarily after debridement
¿ Fractures that were not debrided within 24 hours of injury
¿ Non ¿ traumatic open tibia fractures such as pathological fractures
¿ Cigarette smokers
¿Patient with diabetes mellitus, HIV/AIDS, psychosis or chronic renal failure
¿Patients on corticosteroids or chemotherapy
¿Patients referred from other medical facilities where they had already received any form of treatment
¿Hemodynamically unstable patients
¿Patients who refused to give consent


Age minimum: 18 Year(s)
Age maximum: 80 Year(s)
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Open fractures
Musculoskeletal Diseases

Musculoskeletal Diseases
Open fractures
Intervention(s)
24-HOUR GROUP
5-DAY GROUP
Primary Outcome(s)
INFECTION
Secondary Outcome(s)
Effect of duration to antibiotic administration on infectionj rate
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date: 10/09/2014
Contact:
KNH/UON ERC
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