Optimal Timing of Surgical Antimicrobial Prophylaxis with Cefuroxim: Challenging the WHO Guidelines with 121,000 Prospectively Followed Patients

BACKGROUND: Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP) is standard of care in clean surgery involving implants and in clean-contaminated surgical procedures. Timing of application of the antibiotic remains a debate: WHO recently extended the time prior to incision from 60 to 120 minutes, while CDC con...

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Publié dans:Open Forum Infect Dis
Auteurs principaux: Widmer, Andreas F, Troillet, Nicolas, Thurneysen, Maurus, Atkinson, Andrew, Dangel, Marc, Kuster, Stefan P, Marschall, Jonas
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: Oxford University Press 2017
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630772/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1722
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