Role of prophylactic antibiotics for tube thoracostomy in chest trauma

American Surgeon

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 617-621

  Gonzalez, Richard P ^a   Holevar, Michele R ^b  

^a ADVOCATE CHRIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX PENETRATING TRAUMA;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHEST TUBES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOSTOMY; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0031802332     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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