Antibiotics and perioperative infections

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 571-584

  James, Michael ^a   Martinez, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

beta lactam allergy; endocarditis prophylaxis; surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis; surgical care improvement project; surgical site infections

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MONOBACTAM DERIVATIVE; NITROFURANTOIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TIGECYCLINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION RISK; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SKIN FLORA; SKIN TOXICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URTICARIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 49449109429     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2008.05.001     Document Type: Review

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