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Keep this study
Lead
University of Maryland, Baltimore
With
McMaster University
United States Department of Defense
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
1. Patients 18 years of age or older.
2. Open fracture of the appendicular skeleton.
3. Received or will receive definitive fracture treatment with a surgical implant(s) (e.g., internal fixation, external fixation, joint prosthesis, etc.).
4. Open fracture wound management that includes formal surgical debridement within 72 hours of their injury.
5. Will have all planned fracture care surgeries performed by a participating surgeon or delegate.
6. Informed consent obtained.
7. Patient enrolled within 3 weeks of their fracture.
You may not be if
1. Patients that did not or will not receive the allocated pre-operative surgical preparation solution due to a medical contraindication.
2. Received previous surgical debridement or management of their open fracture at a non-participating hospital or clinic.
3. Open fracture managed outside of the participating orthopaedic service (e.g., hand fracture managed by plastic surgeon).
4. Chronic or acute infection at or near the fracture site at the time of initial fracture surgery.
5. Burns at the fracture site.
6. Incarceration.
7. Expected injury survival of less than 90 days.
8. Terminal illness with expected survival less than 90 days.
9. Previous enrollment in a PREP-IT trial.
10. Currently enrolled in a study that does not permit co-enrollment.
11. Unable to obtain informed consent due to language barriers.
12. Likely problems, in the judgment of study personnel, with maintaining follow-up with the patient.
13. Excluded due to sampling strategy.
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