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Antibiotic usage in surgical prophylaxis: surveillance of clean and clean-contaminated surgeries in a tertiary care hospital. [PDF]

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Kandasamy G   +8 more
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Surgical and medical antibiotic prophylaxis

Archives de Pédiatrie, 2017
Surgical site infections are the leading cause of perioperative morbidity and mortality as well as increased costs following surgery. Among preventive measures, antibiotic prophylaxis, when indicated, significantly decreases these risks. Adult and pediatric guidelines have recently been published (1,2).
H, Haas   +4 more
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SURGICAL ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS IN SMALLER HOSPITALS

ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2006
Background:  In 2004, The Victorian Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System Coordinating Centre established a smaller hospital (<100 beds) surveillance programme that included an optional ‘surgical antibiotic prophylaxis’ (SAP) module. Appropriate SAP is believed to be one of the most effective strategies to reduce surgical site infections ...
Noleen J, Bennett   +5 more
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Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Surgical Procedures on Children

Journal of Chemotherapy, 2006
The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to current local antimicrobial prophylaxis guidelines for children requiring different surgical procedures. One hundred and fifty consecutive surgical procedures on children were included in this retrospective study of adherence.
M, Groselj Grenc   +3 more
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Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis

Medical Clinics of North America, 1995
Improvements in antibiotic prophylaxis, including the timing of initial administration, appropriate choice of antibiotic agents, and the limiting of the duration of administration, have more clearly defined the value of this technique in many clinical surgical settings.
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Auditing and Improving Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis

Surgical Infections, 2018
There is extensive evidence of the efficacy of anti-microbial drugs in preventing infections from surgical efforts. Our objective was to describe the results obtained in our annual surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (SAP) audit in the years 2013-2017.This was a retrospective observational study of SAP in surgical procedures carried out between 2013 and ...
Cristina, Mondelo García   +3 more
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