As of August 23rd, 2023, the CLEAN Wound Trial is also officially open for enrollment at North York General Hospital!
As of August 1st, 2023, the CLEAN Wound Trial is officially open for enrollment at two sites:
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Hamilton Health Sciences – Juravinski Hospital
Our CIHR Operating Grant: Clinical Trials Projects application, entitled “The Clinical Evaluation of Adults Undergoing Elective Surgery Utilizing Intraoperative Incisional Wound Irrigation (CLEAN Wound) Trial” was successful in securing funding to support the definitive CLEAN Wound Trial at our 3 existing pilot sites and several new sites across Ontario!
More information about the CIHR’s Clinical Trials Fund can be found here and a full list of funded projects is available here.
Additional news releases about CLEAN Wound can be found using the links below:
- Sunnybrook Research Institute Research News
- CIHR Celebrating Health Research: The faces of health research 2023
Full trial details are available on ClinicalTrials.gov
In this episode of the ON-SQIN podcast Surgical 411, members of the North York General Hospital surgical quality improvement team talk about their quality improvement journey and their experience taking part in the multi-hospital IMPACTS Program trials.
It is available to listen here:
The IMPACTS Program will officially be launching 4 trials in October 2021 at 3 sites in Ontario (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, North York General Hospital and The Ottawa Hospital)!
These trials will run for 1 year, to evaluate the feasibility of conducting multiple trials in surgical and perioperative care using the innovative IMPACTS Program framework.
Here are the 4 questions that will be examined:
1- Does the use of antibiotics prevent re-intervention and fistula formation in patients with perianal abscesses, following incision and drainage?
2- Can cryotherapy improve the quality of patients’ post-operative recovery and pain?
3- Does wound irrigation prevent surgical site infections?
4- Can coffee/caffeine improve post-operative gastrointestinal recovery?
For more information on each of the IMPACTS trials, click here.
