Antibiotics for preventing infection in open limb fractures

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Gosselin, Richard A ^a   Roberts, Ian ^b   Gillespie, William J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFRADINE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLOXACILLIN; DICLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN;

AMPUTATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BONE INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEBRIDEMENT; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIMB FRACTURE; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOMYELITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION;

EID: 77950138012     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003764.pub2     Document Type: Review

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