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The immediate use of antimicrobial agents
Author(s) -
ANDREWS H. J.,
Pasteur Louis
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11983.x
Subject(s) - medicine , antimicrobial , intensive care medicine , anti infective agents , surgery , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
The use of antimicrobial agents in the surgical period is discussed with reference to the role of the anaesthetist in prophylaxis against the spread of infection in the patient, the treatment of established infection, the protection of the anaesthetist against infection from the patient and of the patient against the side-effects of the antimicrobial agents themselves.