Prophylactic antibiotics for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Are they necessary?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 611-614

  Higgins, Andrew ^a   London, Jeremy ^a   Charland, Scott ^b   Ratzer, Erich ^a   Clark, Jeffrey ^a   Haun, William ^a   Maher, D Patrick ^a,c,d  

^a Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital   (United States)

^b Roche Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^d Department of General Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTETAN; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTETAN; CEPHALOSPORINS; CEPHAMYCINS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 0032992701     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.134.6.611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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