Open AccessRisk of surgical site infection in paediatric herniotomies without any prophylactic antibiotics: A preliminary experience
Author(s) -
Dhananjay Vaze,
Ram Samujh,
K. L. N. 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.