Intraoperative Culturing During Surgery for Acute Appendicitis
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 116 (7) , 866-868
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1981.01380190016004
Abstract
• Consecutive records of 608 patients who underwent appendectomy for suspected acute appendicitis were retrospectively analyzed to evaluate the necessity and usefulness of intraoperative cultures. There were no operative deaths and postoperative infectious morbidity was 6.4%. Positive cultures were only weakly predictive of postoperative infection. Culture results did not influence selection of antibiotics. Routine intraoperative culturing during appendectomy is costly and unnecessary, except in patients at high risk. (Arch Surg 1981;116:866-868)This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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