Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence of SSIs was similar between patients given vancomycin or placebo in addition to standard surgical ...

Delays prior to surgery and the type of antibiotic prophylaxis administered prior to surgery may affect surgical site infection rates, according to research presented at the American Academy of ...

Are we overlooking a critical factor in surgical site infections (SSIs)? In the quest for sterile operating rooms and antibiotic prophylaxis, a groundbreaking study suggests we've missed a vital piece ...

Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common complication of adult and pediatric surgery. Appropriate use of perioperative surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) can help to minimize the incidence of SSI ...

Adding vancomycin to beta-lactam prophylaxis with cefazolin did not help prevent surgical-site infections in patients undergoing arthroplasty mostly for the knees or hips, a randomized trial showed.

The broad-spectrum antibiotic piperacillin-tazobactam used as perioperative prophylaxis significantly reduced surgical site infection (SSI) in patients undergoing open pancreatoduodenectomy (PD, or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During the study, 63% of elective colorectal surgery patients received 3 g cefazolin instead of a 2 g dose. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Perioperative prophylaxis accounts for a substantial proportion of antibiotic use in acute-care hospitals. There is clinical evidence of its ...

Once-daily venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis with 10 mg of rivaroxaban for either 7 or 28 days after bariatric surgery was found to be effective and safe. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is known ...