Prophylactic use of antibiotics in surgery
Bahama Med
; 1(2): 11-13, Jan. - Feb. 1985. tab
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ABSTRACT
Antibiotics do have an important role to play in the prophylaxis of infections in the surgical patient. However this frequently result in their inapproaptiate use since little/no criteria are adhered to in their application. Few surgeons avoid the temptation of abusing antibiotics as "cleansing agents" in surgical situations where they would be hard pressed to support the necessity of such application by their, or any other study. Yet the controversy ranges; antibiotics continue to be abused; resistants continue to be selected out and nosocomial sepsis continues to be more difficult and more costly to treat. The antibiotics regimen outline in this article is one of many available to the surgeon. The purpose of this article is not to present a protocol, but to stimulate cooperation between the microbiologist, infectious disease control presonnel and the surgeon. Then, changing bacterial sensitivity patterns may be recognized, and antibiotics institued appropriately based on strict, feasible criteria for established and /or anticipated nosocomial sepsis (AU)
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Assunto principal:
Antibacterianos
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Adult
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Humans
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Bahamas
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Bahama Med
Ano de publicação:
1985
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