Prophylactic antibiotics are prescribed hoping to prevent such infection and lung damage. Antibiotics have adverse effects and long-term use might lead to infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa . This is an update of a previously published review. Objectives To assess continuous oral antibiotic prophylaxis...
Prophylactic antibiotics are prescribed hoping to prevent such infection and lung damage. Antibiotics have adverse effects and long-term use might lead to infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. OBJECTIVES: To assess continuous oral antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent the acquisition of Staphylococcus aureus ...
Prophylactic antibiotics are prescribed frequently for patients requiring permanent transvenous cardiac pacemakers, despite a paucity of data indicating effectiveness. A 10 year retrospective analysis was performed of 298 pacemaker insertion procedures involving 204 patients. On the basis of prestudy criteria...
Prophylactic antibiotics (PAs) are beneficial to breast cancer patients undergoing surgery because they prevent surgical site infection (SSI), but limited information regarding their use has been published. This study aims to determine the use of PAs prior to breast cancer surgery amongst breast surgeo...
Totally 999 (98.9%) people received prophylactic antibiotics. Intravenous Cefazolin (for ENT procedures) and topical eye drop of Chloramphenicol 0.5% were prescribed mostly. We found poor accommodation between antibiotic use and guidelines for prophylaxis, mostly in case of duration of apply. Conclusion...
Antibiotics were prescribed for 62% of children who had surgery, and prophylaxis was the sole reason for antibiotic use in 73% of the patients. Prophylactic antibiotics were administered inappropriately with respect to timing or duration to 42% of the children receiving preoperative prophylaxis, 67%...
The outcome variable was whether any antibiotics were given intraoperatively. Multivariate logistic regression with random effects was used to identify factors associated with the doctor's prescription.Results. Prophylactic antibiotics were prescribed in 82% of all patients. One hundred and eighty-eight ...
Phase 1: out of 116.8 million ED visits nationally in 2007, 1.8 million (1.6%) were due to simple hand lacerations, of which 1.3 million (71%) required repair. Of those repaired, 27% (95% CI, 19–35%) were prescribed prophylactic antibiotics, most commonly cephalexin (73%). Phase 2...
Non-antibiotic regimens such as methenamine hippurate, D-mannose, and vaginal estrogen are often prescribed as prevention for recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTIs). The objective of our study was to describe adherence rates in women prescribed non-antibiotic prophylaxis for rUTI and to explore fa...
Drugs prescribed to kids are often inappropriate [5] As controversy still surrounds the routine use of prophylactic antibiotics in elective LC, this study is being conducted with the aim of investigating the necessity and testing the efficacy of Cefazolin (triple dose) as a prophylactic antibiotic ...