Effectiveness of pre-operative cefazolin in obese patients

Surgical Infections

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 412-416

  Unger, Nathan R ^a   Stein, Bradley J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFAZOLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBESITY; ORTHOPEDICS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CEFAZOLIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906219711     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2012.167     Document Type: Article

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