Follow-up Study on the Effect of Risk-Stratified, Protocol-Based Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Postoperative Infections in a Tertiary Care Neurosurgical Department over 10 Years (2007–2016)

Follow-up Study on the Effect of Risk-Stratified, Protocol-Based Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Postoperative Infections in a Tertiary Care Neurosurgical Department over 10 Years (2007–2016)

Objective To study the effectiveness of risk-stratified prophylactic antibiotic policy on meningitis, surgical site, and extraneurosurgical site infections among postoperative neurosurgical patients from the year 2007 to 2016. This is a follow-up study for a similar analysis done from 1994 to 2006,...

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Main Authors: Ashutosh Agarwal, Sachin A. Borkar, Arti Kapil, Jyotsna Dabral, Ashish Suri, Shashank S. Kale, Ashok K. Mahapatra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2018-03-01
Series:Indian Journal of Neurosurgery
Subjects:
antibiotic prophylaxis
meningitis
wound infection
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0038-1649331

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