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Association Between Antimicrobial Prophylaxis With Double-Dose Cefuroxime and Surgical Site Infections in Patients Weighing 80 kg or More
IMPORTANCE: Many guidelines recommend a weight-adopted dose increase of cefuroxime for surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP). However, the evidence that this approach is associated with lower rates of surgical site infection (SSI) is limited. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether double-dose cefuroxime SA...
Autores principales: | Sommerstein, Rami, Atkinson, Andrew, Kuster, Stefan P., Vuichard-Gysin, Danielle, Harbarth, Stephan, Troillet, Nicolas, Widmer, Andreas F. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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American Medical Association
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8674749/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34910149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.38926 |
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