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Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis in an Era of Antibiotic Resistance: Common Resistant Bacteria and Wider Considerations for Practice [PDF]
Infection and Drug Resistance, 2021 The increasing incidence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) presents a global crisis to healthcare, with longstanding antimicrobial agents becoming less effective at treating and preventing infection.
Bradley D Menz +2 more
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Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Ocular Surgical Infections
Türk Oftalmoloji Dergisi, 2011 Surgical infections are one of the major problems in ophthalmology and can be seen because of many factors, including the conditions of the operating rooms, surgical staff, surgical devices and the patient.
Ufuk Elgin
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Antibiotic prophylaxis in otolaryngologic surgery
International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2013 Aim: Antibiotic prophylaxis aims to prevent infection of surgical sites before contamination or infection occurs. Prolonged antibiotic prophylaxis does not enhance the prevention of surgical infection and is associated with higher rates of antibiotic ...
Ottoline, Ana Carolina Xavier +5 more
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A National Survey of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Turkey [PDF]
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2003 AbstractObjective:To assess the quality of antibiotic prophylaxis for clean and clean-contaminated elective surgical procedures.Design:A cross-sectional, country-wide survey.Setting:Thirty-six hospitals in 12 cities in Turkey.Participants:Four hundred thirty-nine surgeons from 6 different specialties who performed selected procedures of interest ...
Aldemir, M +13 more
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2023 The use of perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis in cutaneous surgery is controversial due to unclear efficacy and, thus, potentially unnecessary side-effects.
Benjamin Kendziora +4 more
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Evaluation of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis
HEALTH SCIENCES QUARTERLY, 2023 Surgical prophylaxis is one of the areas where antibiotics are used commonly. In this study it is aimed surgical prophylaxis appropriateness and determination of cost analysis in our hospital. The study was performed November 30-15, 2018. 108 patients who underwent surgery in general surgery, orthopedics and neurosurgery clinics have been included in ...
Tünay, Havva
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Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis in a Turkish University Hospital
Journal of Chemotherapy, 2002 A prospective study was performed to assess the practice of antibiotic prophylaxis for surgical procedures in Pamukkale University Hospital, Denizli, Turkey. All surgical procedures performed between April 1 and July 31, 2001, were included. During the study period 897 operations were reviewed.
Yalçın, Ata Nevzat +3 more
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Antibiotics for surgical prophylaxis
Australian Prescriber, 2005 Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis is defined as the use of antibiotics to prevent infections at the surgical site. Prophylaxis has become the standard of care for contaminated and clean-contaminated surgery and for surgery involving insertion of artificial devices. The antibiotic selected should only cover the likely pathogens.
Munckhof W.
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The SURgical PAtient Safety System (SURPASS) checklist optimizes timing of antibiotic prophylaxis
Patient Safety in Surgery, 2010 Background Surgical site infection (SSI) is an adverse event in which a close relation between process of care and outcome has been demonstrated: administration of antibiotic prophylaxis decreases the risk of SSI.
Smorenburg Susanne M +4 more
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Antibiotic prophylaxis in open inguinal hernia repair: a literature review and summary of current knowledge [PDF]
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques, 2016 More than 1 million inguinal hernia repairs are performed in Europe and the US annually. Although antibiotic prophylaxis is not required in clean, elective procedures, the routine use of implants (90% of inguinal hernia repairs are performed with mesh ...
Mateusz T. Zamkowski +5 more
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