Risk of surgical site infection in paediatric herniotomies without any prophylactic antibiotics: A preliminary experience | Zendy

Dhananjay Vaze | Zendy; Ram Samujh | Zendy; KatragaddaLakshmi Narasimha Rao | Zendy

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Risk of surgical site infection in paediatric herniotomies without any prophylactic antibiotics: A preliminary experience

Author(s) -

Dhananjay Vaze,

Ram Samujh,

KatragaddaLakshmi Narasimha Rao

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

african journal of paediatric surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 0189-6725

pISSN - 0974-5998

DOI - 10.4103/0189-6725.132816

Subject(s) - medicine , antibiotics , antibiotic prophylaxis , surgery , incidence (geometry) , group b , regimen , population , physics , environmental health , optics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Different studies underline the use of pre-operative antibiotic prophylaxis in clean surgeries like herniotomy and inguinal orchiopexy. But, the meta-analyses do not recommend nor discard the use of prophylactic pre-operative antibiotics. The scarcity of controlled clinical trials in paediatric population further vitiates the matter. This study assessed the difference in the rate of early post-operative wound infection cases in children who received single dose of pre-operative antibiotics and children who did not receive antibiotics after inguinal herniotomy and orchiopexy.

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