Nothing About Us Without Us - The FALCON Trial

The FALCON Trial - Reducing surgical site infections in low-income and middle-income countries: a pragmatic, multicentre, stratified, randomised controlled trial is a remarkable study for many reasons. It has answered an important question about surgical site infections: whether chlorhexidine is better than betadine, and whether triclosan-impregnated sutures are better than regular sutures (spoiler alert: nope.) It's an elegant study design - a 2x2 factorial randomized controlled trial. And it's a remarkable feat: almost 6000 patients across 54 hospitals in 7 countries. And some of those hospitals don't have reliable internet or electricity.

As you'll hear, the FALCON is just the first of a whole zoo of trials now in progress by this remarkable group.

We speak with two authors of the FALCON study, Dr. Adesoji Ademuyiwa of the University of Lagos and Mr. Dhruv Ghosh of Christian Medical College Ludhiana in India.

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