Timing of intravenous prophylactic antibiotics for preventing postpartum infectious morbidity in women undergoing cesarean delivery

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Mackeen, A Dhanya ^a   Packard, Roger E ^a   Ota, Erika ^b   Berghella, Vincenzo ^c   Baxter, Jason K ^c  

^a GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CYSTITIS; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOMYOMETRITIS; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; META ANALYSIS; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; PYELONEPHRITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SKIN INCISION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; STANDARDS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CESAREAN SECTION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84925225301     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009516.pub2     Document Type: Review

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