Evaluating a Change in Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Kidney Transplant Recipients

The purpose of this study was to retrospectively evaluate if a change in practice from January 2013 to August 2015 affected the rate of surgical-site infections following kidney transplantation at the single academic medical center. More patients were found to have a surgical-site infection when sur...

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Autores principales: Bliven, Katherine, Snow, Karisa, Carlson, Adrian, Yeager, Sarah, Kenyon, Nicole, Smith, Lonnie, Truax, Crystal M, Martinez, Eryberto, Campsen, Jeffrey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Transplantation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6289557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30546980
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3433
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Sumario:The purpose of this study was to retrospectively evaluate if a change in practice from January 2013 to August 2015 affected the rate of surgical-site infections following kidney transplantation at the single academic medical center. More patients were found to have a surgical-site infection when surgical antibiotics were only given intra-operatively despite a lower incidence of risk factors identified in the literature when compared to the cohort who received antibiotics intra-op and post-op for 24 hours.

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