Perioperative antibiotic use in vagus nerve stimulator implantation: a clinical series.
Jeffrey S RaskinDaniel HansenArvind MohanI-Wen PanDaniel J CurrySandi K LamPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2017)
Single preoperative dosing of one antibiotic appropriately chosen to cover typical skin flora conferred equal benefit to perioperative prophylactic polypharmacy in this study. There were no differences in postoperative infection events or ED visits/readmissions. Restraint with preoperative antibiosis shows equipoise in postoperative infection and overall resource utilization.