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Is it time to recast the principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis?
Perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis has been a time-honored principle in the prevention of surgical site infection. Its effectiveness has recently been questioned. Potential reasons for the lack of demonstrable efficacy and suggestions for re-examination of this concept are presented.
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BioMed Central
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21791052 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-21 |
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| author | Malangoni, Mark A |
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| description | Perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis has been a time-honored principle in the prevention of surgical site infection. Its effectiveness has recently been questioned. Potential reasons for the lack of demonstrable efficacy and suggestions for re-examination of this concept are presented. |
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| language | English |
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| spelling | pubmed-31591012011-08-23 Is it time to recast the principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis? Malangoni, Mark A World J Emerg Surg Commentary Perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis has been a time-honored principle in the prevention of surgical site infection. Its effectiveness has recently been questioned. Potential reasons for the lack of demonstrable efficacy and suggestions for re-examination of this concept are presented. BioMed Central 2011-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3159101/ /pubmed/21791052 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-21 Text en Copyright ©2011 Malangoni; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| spellingShingle | Commentary Malangoni, Mark A Is it time to recast the principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis? |
| title | Is it time to recast the principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis? |
| title_full | Is it time to recast the principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis? |
| title_fullStr | Is it time to recast the principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is it time to recast the principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis? |
| title_short | Is it time to recast the principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis? |
| title_sort | is it time to recast the principles of antimicrobial prophylaxis? |
| topic | Commentary |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159101/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21791052 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-21 |
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