Preventing postoperative infections. Current treatment recommendations

Drugs

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 175-185

  Gyssens, Inge C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG USE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033044675     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-199957020-00004     Document Type: Article

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