Antibiotic regimen and the timing of prophylaxis are important for reducing surgical site infection after elective abdominal colorectal surgery

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 255-260

  Ho, Vanessa P ^a   Barie, Philip S ^a   Stein, Sharon L ^b   Trencheva, Koiana ^a   Milsom, Jeffrey W ^a   Lee, Sang W ^a   Sonoda, Toyooki ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOXITIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENTERITIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MONOTHERAPY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051971269     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2010.073     Document Type: Article

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