Single-Dose Intraoperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Emergency Abdominal Surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1982, Pages 195-199

  Rowlands, Brian J ^a,b   Clark, Ronald G ^a   Richards, David G ^a  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PLACEBO; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMEN; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS; CLINDAMYCIN; CLINICAL TRIALS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EMERGENCIES; GENTAMICINS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0020056271     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1982.01380260063011     Document Type: Article

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