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Antibiotic prophylaxis of endocarditis [PDF]

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016
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Million, Matthieu, Grisoli, Dominique, Griffiths, Karolina, Raoult, Didier   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Supporting global antimicrobial stewardship: antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of surgical site infection in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): a scoping review and meta-analysis

JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 2020
Background The Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group is supporting two hospitals in Ghana to develop antimicrobial stewardship. Early intelligence gathering suggested that surgical prophylaxis was suboptimal.
L. Cooper, J. Sneddon, D. Afriyie, I. Sefah, A. Kurdi, B. Godman, R. A. Seaton   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patients' request for and emergency physicians' prescription of antimicrobial prophylaxis for anthrax during the 2001 bioterrorism-related outbreak [PDF]

, 2005
BACKGROUND: Inappropriate use of antibiotics by individuals worried about biological agent exposures during bioterrorism events is an important public health concern.
Aber, Robert C, Julian, Kathleen G, Kunselman, Allen R, Lautenbach, Ebbing, M'ikanatha, Nkuchia M, Rankin, James T   +5 more
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Antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of postoperative wound infection in adults undergoing open elective inguinal or femoral hernia repair.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2020
BACKGROUND Inguinal or femoral hernia is a tissue protrusion in the groin region and has a cumulative incidence of 27% in adult men and of 3% in adult women.
C. Orelio, C. van Hessen, F. J. Sánchez-Manuel, T. Aufenacker, R. Scholten   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Randomized controlled trials of antibiotic prophylaxis in severe acute pancreatitis:Relationship between methodological quality and outcome [PDF]

, 2007
AIM: To evaluate the methodological quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of systemic antibiotic prophylaxis in severe acute pancreatitis in relation to outcome.
Besselink, Marc G. H., Buskens, Erik, de Vries, Annemarie C., Gooszen, Hein G., Ridwan, Ben U., Schipper, Maria, van Erpecum, Karel J.   +6 more
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Adherence to American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis Guideline in Medical City Teaching Hospitals/Baghdad

Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2017
Surgical site infections are the second most common type of adverse events occurring in hospitalized patients. Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis refers to the use of preoperative and postoperative antibiotics to decrease the incidence of postoperative ...
Nagham T. Salih, Dheyaa J. Kadhim
doaj   +3 more sources

Cost-effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis in elective cesarean section

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2018
Background The proportion of pregnant women delivered by cesarean section has increased steadily during the past three decades. The risk of infection is 10-fold augmented after elective cesarean section compared to vaginal delivery.
Markus H. Jansson, Yang Cao, Kerstin Nilsson, Per-Göran Larsson, Lars Hagberg   +4 more
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Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis in an Australian burns unit

Australasian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2022
**Background** Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis is perceived to reduce intraoperative bacteraemia and prevent surgical site infections, however, the evidence for its use in burns surgery is limited.
Patrick Lu, Dane Holden, Alex Padiglione, Heather Cleland   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do or Don’t: Results of a Multinational Survey on Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Urodynamics

Antibiotics, 2023
Antibiotic prophylaxis contributes substantially to the increase in antibiotic resistance rates worldwide. This investigation aims to assess the current standard of practice in using antibiotic prophylaxis for urodynamics (UDS) and identify barriers to ...
Fabian P. Stangl, Laila Schneidewind, Florian M. Wagenlehner, Daniela Schultz-Lampel, Kaven Baeßler, Gert Naumann, Sandra Schönburg, Petra Anheuser, Susanne Winkelhog-Gran, Matthias Saar, Tanja Hüsch, Jennifer Kranz   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antibiotic prophylaxis is associated with subsequent resistant infections in children with an initial extended-spectrum-cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infection [PDF]

, 2017
The objective of this study was to assess the association between previous antibiotic use, particularly long-term prophylaxis, and the occurrence of subsequent resistant infections in children with index infections due to extended-spectrum-cephalosporin ...
Adler, Amanda L, Burnham, Carey-Ann D, Das, Sibani, Elward, Alexis, Kronman, Matthew P, Miles-Jay, Arianna, Newland, Jason G, Qin, Xuan, Selvarangan, Rangaraj, Sullivan, Kaede V, Weissman, Scott J, Zaoutis, Theoklis, Zerr, Danielle M   +12 more
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