Prophylactic use of cefotaxime in elective biliary surgery
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
- Vol. 14 (suppl B) , 237-239
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/14.suppl_b.237
Abstract
This paper describes a randomized trial of 66 patients undergoing elective biliary surgery, half of whom received 1 g of intravenous injection of cefotaxime at the time of induction of anaesthesia and half who had no treatment. A 12.5% wound infection rate in the untreated patients was observed compared to a complete absence of infection in the treated patients.Keywords
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