Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis in spinal surgery.

Ahmed Shawky AbdelgawaadMohammed Hassaan Mohamed El SadikKhalid Mohammed HassanMohammad El-Sharkawi

Published in: SICOT-J (2021)

A single-day postoperative dose of antibiotics effectively prevents postoperative wound infection following non-instrumented lumbar spinal surgery and is not associated with a higher infection rate.

Keyphrases

patients undergoing
minimally invasive
coronary artery bypass
surgical site infection
spinal cord
cardiac surgery
acute kidney injury