Giving short‐term prophylactic antibiotics in patients undergoing open and laparoscopic hepatic resection

Giving short‐term prophylactic antibiotics in patients undergoing open and laparoscopic hepatic resection

Abstract Aim The 2016 guidelines of the Japan Society for Surgical Infection and the Japan Society of Chemotherapy advocate giving prophylactic antibiotics 1 hour before surgery and until 24 hours after surgery in patients undergoing elective hepatic resection. However, the efficacy of short‐term an...

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Main Authors: Hiroji Shinkawa, Shogo Tanaka, Shigekazu Takemura, Ryosuke Amano, Kenjiro Kimura, Takayoshi Nishioka, Tokuji Ito, Toru Miyazaki, Atsushi Ishihara, Shoji Kubo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-09-01
Series:Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery
Subjects:
antibiotics
antimicrobial
incidence
propensity score
surgical site infection
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ags3.12267

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https://doi.org/10.1002/ags3.12267

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