PROPHYLACTIC CESAREAN-SECTION ANTIBIOTICS - MATERNAL AND NEONATAL MORBIDITY BEFORE OR AFTER CORD CLAMPING

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 53  (2) , 151-156
Abstract
In an ongoing prospective study at 2 hospitals, 114 cesarean section patients were studied to determine whether giving ampicillin after umbilical cord clamping is as effective as perioperative ampicillin in reducing maternal post-operative morbidity. The same patients were also studied to determine the effect of prophylactic cesarean section ampicillin on the newborn. Prophylactic ampicillin initiated after cord clamping is as effective in reducing maternal morbidity as ampicillin initiated prior to the surgery. There is also no evidence from the study that the transplacental passage of prophylactic ampicillin increases immediate or delayed neonatal infections.

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