Pre-emptive antibiotic treatment vs 'standard' treatment in patients with elevated serum procalcitonin levels after elective colorectal surgery: A prospective randomised pilot study

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 391, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 187-194

  Chromik, Ansgar Michael ^a   Endter, Frank ^b   Uhl, Waldemar ^a   Thiede, Arnulf ^b   Reith, Hans Bernd ^b   Mittelkötter, Ulrich ^a  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fast track colorectal surgery; Infectious complication; Postoperative monitoring; Pre emptive antibiotic therapy; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN; PROCALCITONIN; SULBACTAM; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744779622     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-005-0009-1     Document Type: Article

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