Chlorhexidine Antiseptic Irrigation of the Bowel Segment During Radical Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion

December 8, 2025 updated by: John Sfakianos, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Chlorhexidine Antiseptic Irrigation of the Bowel Segment During Radical Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion After Chlorhexidine Irrigation in Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy

This is a single arm, interventional pilot study of using chlorhexidine irrigation intra-operatively and post-operatively among patients undergoing radical cystectomy with urinary diversion. The intervention comprises of using irrigation of ileal conduit or ileal neobladder intra-operatively and then for irrigation of either post-surgery with Irrisept ®. The sterilization of urine will be assessed at 10 days after cystectomy. Incidence of symptomatic urinary tract infections within the 30-day post-operative period will be estimated.

Study Overview

Status

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Recruiting

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Detailed Description

Th research team proposes to increase the rate of sterilization of urine from patients with urinary diversion and reduce the incidence of UTI up to 30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy and urinary diversion using 50 ± 25ml of Irrisept ® irrigation solution lavage of the bowel segment during surgery for a contact time of 2 minutes. For patients who obtain an ileal conduits irrigation using 50 ± 25ml of Irrisept ® will be performed daily for 10 days +/- 3 days and for those patients obtaining ileal neobladders irrigation using 50 ± 25ml of Irrisept ® will continue for 21 days +/- 7 days. The irrigation will continue for the given time described above as this is usually when stents and catheters are removed.

Study Type

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Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

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23

Phase

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  • Not Applicable

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Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

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Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Provision of signed and dated informed consent form.
  • Stated availability for the duration of the study, and willingness to comply with all study procedures, including willingness to adhere to twice daily irrigation of neobladder or ileal conduit.
  • Male or female, ≥ 18 years of age
  • Confirmed diagnosis of bladder cancer
  • Candidate for radical cystectomy with urinary diversion
  • ECOG performance status of 0-2
  • Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 mg/dL

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Has undergone or planned to undergo urinary diversion other than ileal conduit or neobladder.
  • Pregnancy or lactation.
  • Known allergic reactions to components of the Irrisept irrigating system, chlorhexidine.
  • Patient must not have any uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that, in the opinion of the investigator, would limit compliance with study requirements.

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Experimental: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy with urinary diversion
Patients undergoing radical cystectomy and ileal conduit or ileal neobladder will receive Irrisept ® Antimicrobial Wound Lavage as intervention
Device: Irrisept® Antimicrobial Wound Lavage
Irrisept® Antimicrobial Wound Lavage is a single-use, manual, self-contained irrigation device comprised of a 450mL bottle of 0.05% Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) in 99.95% Sterile Water for Irrigation, United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and an applicator (labeled Irriprobe®). The solution is aseptically filled in a Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) bottle. The CHG acts as a preservative to inhibit microbial growth in the solution.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Number of participants that have negative urine culture
Time Frame: 30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion.
Negative urine culture will be defined as a colony count of less than or equal to 100000 CFU/ml. The urine sample will be collected by catheterization of the conduit with a 16F Foley catheter, which provides the least number of CFU of bacteria compared to collection from the ostomy bag. Patients with ileal neobladder will give a spontaneously voided urine sample when able or will be obtained from catheterized urine for those who cannot void.
30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion.
Proportion of participants with incident symptomatic UTI
Time Frame: 30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion.
Proportion of participants with incident symptomatic UTI by 30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion. Symptomatic UTI will be defined as a positive urine culture in the presence of fever (≥38°C) with or without associated flank/abdominal pain.
30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

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Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Percentage of urine leak from neobladder/ ileal conduit
Time Frame: 30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion
30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion
Percentage of patients with sepsis
Time Frame: 30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion
Percentage of patients with sepsis (when the body reacts to an infection) will be assessed. In case >/= 10% of participants experience sepsis, the intervention will be considered unacceptable.
30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion
Percentage of symptomatic urinary tract infections
Time Frame: 30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion
Symptomatic urinary tract infection is when a person has positive UTI and has fever and other symptoms including pain when passing urine and pain in the lower belly.
30 ± 7 days post radical cystectomy with urinary diversion

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Sponsor

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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Collaborators

Collaborators

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Irrimax Corporation

Investigators

Investigators

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  • Principal Investigator: John P Sfakianos, MD, Associate Professor of Urology

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

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August 1, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

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July 1, 2026

Study Completion (Estimated)

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July 1, 2026

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First Submitted

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November 12, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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November 12, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

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November 14, 2024

Study Record Updates

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December 15, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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December 8, 2025

Last Verified

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December 1, 2025

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  • STUDY-23-00340

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after deidentification (text, tables, figures, and appendices).

IPD Sharing Time Frame

Immediately following publication. No end date.

IPD Sharing Access Criteria

Investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee ('learned intermediary') identified for this purpose. Any purpose. Proposals may be submitted up to 36 months following article publication. After 36 months the data will be available in our University's data warehouse but without investigator support other than deposited metadata. Information regarding submitting proposals and accessing data may be found at (TBD).

IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type

  • STUDY_PROTOCOL
  • ICF

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

Yes

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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