Open AccessSafety of a 2-Day Antibiotic Regimen After Delayed Chest Closure Post Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Author(s) -
Philip Joseph,
Christian Kegg,
Dalia López-Colón,
Brian Kelly,
Robert M. Lawrence,
Matthew Robinson,
Ravi Shankar Samraj,
Mark S. Bleiweis
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of intensive care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.866
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1525-1489
pISSN - 0885-0666
DOI - 10.1177/0885066618792849
Subject(s) - medicine , antibiotics , surgery , regimen , incidence (geometry) , prospective cohort study , antibiotic prophylaxis , intensive care unit , anesthesia , physics , optics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
There is no consensus for the length of prophylactic antibiotics after delayed chest closure (DCC) postcardiac surgery in pediatrics. In September 2014, our institution's pediatric cardiac intensive care unit changed the policy on length of prophylactic antibiotics after DCC from 5 days (control) to 2 days (study group). The objective of the study was to determine whether a 2-day course of antibiotics is as effective as a 5-day course in preventing blood stream and sternal wound infections in pediatric DCC.