EFFECT OF RISK-STRATIFIED, PROTOCOL-BASED PERIOPERATIVE CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS ON NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION RATES IN A SERIES OF 31 927 CONSECUTIVE NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES (1994–2006) - Concepedia

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EFFECT OF RISK-STRATIFIED, PROTOCOL-BASED PERIOPERATIVE CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS ON NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION RATES IN A SERIES OF 31 927 CONSECUTIVE NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES (1994–2006)

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2009

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Manish Sharma, Ashma Vohra, Ponnamma Thomas, Arti Kapil, Ashish Suri, P. Sarat Chandra, Shashank S. Kale, Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, Bhawani S. Sharma

Abstract

A risk-stratified protocol of perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis may help to significantly decrease not only neurosurgical, but also extra-neurosurgical-site body fluid bacteriological culture positivity.

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