Adjunctive vancomycin powder in pediatric spine surgery is safe

Spine

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 1703-1707

  Gans, Itai ^a,b   Dormans, John P ^a   Spiegel, David A ^a   Flynn, John M ^a   Sankar, Wudbhav N ^a   Campbell, Robert M ^a   Baldwin, Keith D ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Creatinine; Orthopedic surgery; Safety; Spine surgery; Vancomycin powder

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL SCOLIOSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUMBAR SPINE WOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR SCOLIOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED MAN SYNDROME; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; THORACIC WOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; POWDERS; SCOLIOSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84888329840     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31829e05d3     Document Type: Article

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