Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence of SSIs was similar between patients given vancomycin or placebo in addition to standard surgical ...

Team of doctors and nurses wear masks and gloves and prepare for surgery. Study authors sought to determine whether surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis administration following cord clamping led to an ...

Delays prior to surgery and the type of antibiotic prophylaxis administered prior to surgery may affect surgical site infection rates, according to research presented at the American Academy of ...

Are we overlooking a critical factor in surgical site infections (SSIs)? In the quest for sterile operating rooms and antibiotic prophylaxis, a groundbreaking study suggests we've missed a vital piece ...

† Dose injected directly into vein or running intravenous fluids. ‡ Intermittent intravenous infusion. § Aminoglycosides are not recommended for patients with renal insufficiency as less toxic ...

Adding vancomycin to beta-lactam prophylaxis with cefazolin did not help prevent surgical-site infections in patients undergoing arthroplasty mostly for the knees or hips, a randomized trial showed.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgical specialty — namely, cardiac and orthopedic procedures — and the perception of high MRSA prevalence in a ...

Delivering microdose incision-site injections of clindamycin significantly reduced the rate of surgical site infections (SSIs) in skin cancer surgery. However, prophylaxis with flucloxacillin did not ...

Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common complication of adult and pediatric surgery. Appropriate use of perioperative surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) can help to minimize the incidence of SSI ...