patients and methods the study population consisted of all patients with type iiia gastilo open fractures of tibial shaft, with or without fibula fracture (caused by trauma). after wound irrigation, debridement, and wound swab sampling for microbial culture, all patients received prophylactic antibiotic regimens in fitting with their wound class. no topical antibiotics were used with a 6-month ...

conclusion it can be concluded that prophylactic antibiotics do not have any preventive effect on wound infection in a double blind setting. according to our findings, routine antibiotic prophylaxis as recommended for biliary surgery (open or laparoscopic cholecystectomy) is now questionable. results the study population included 61 males and 69 females with the mean age of 49.3±9.6 and 51.8±9....

BACKGROUND Although routinely administered, definitive evidence for the benefits of prophylactic antibiotics before the implantation of permanent pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators from a large double-blinded placebo-controlled trial is lacking. The purpose of this study was to determine whether prophylactic antibiotic administration reduces the incidence of infection relate...

BACKGROUND Elective cholecystectomy for symptomatic gall stone disease carries low risk of postoperative infective complications. Yet the routine use of prophylactic antibiotic is in vogue in many centres. The aim of this study was to find out the efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis in preventing postoperative infective complications in low risk elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients. ...

A prospective evaluation of wound healing of 675 patients who underwent elective foot and ankle surgeries between 2011 and 2015 at a single hospital clinic was performed to evaluate the effect of two prophylactic antibiotic regimens. Only those patients who were having elective foot or ankle surgery and were being followed up at the hospital’s outpatient clinic, patients had a traumatic or non-...

OBJECTIVE Determining antimicrobial indication and frequency of use in hospitalised patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Date and place of work: May 1st to June 30th 2006, Colima, Mexico. An analytical cross-sectional study was carried out; it involved 400 patients from both sexes hospitalised in different second level hospital departments. The variables analysed were: age, gender and the departme...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate whether the use of antibiotic prophylaxis in orthognathic surgery can effectively reduce the postoperative infection rate. STUDY DESIGN Electronic databases were searched and reference lists checked. Full articles meeting the inclusion criteria were retrieved. Study details and outcome data of these reports were statistically analyzed. There ...