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Prophylactic Antibiotics in Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery Current Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Howard Faden
Howard Faden*
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Buffalo, and Children's Hospital, Buffalo, New York
*
Division of Infectious Diseases ir Virology, Children's Hospital, 219 Bryant Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 14222
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Abstract

A limited survey of 90 orthopedic surgery programs throughout the U.S. A. was conducted to determine the use of prophylactic antibiotics in pediatric orthopedic operations. Prophylaxis was used most often in the Harrington rod procedure (80.7%); less often in hip (64.2%) and knee (44.7%) reconstructive surgery; rarely in meniscus repairs (8.0%) and in lengthening of Achilles tendǫns (2.3%). Cephalosporins (85%) were the antibiotics prescribed most frequently. The first dose was administered before surgery in 89.6% of the operations. Prophylaxis was discontinued within five days in 96% of the operations. These data provide a pattern of the use of prophylaxis in pediatric orthopedic surgery.

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Original Articles
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , 03/04 1981 , pp. 107 - 109
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1981

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