A shorter course of prophylactic antibiotics, or even no course at all, appeared to be noninferior to longer courses in ...

Pooled data show that no or shorter antibiotic prophylaxis for upper GI bleeding in cirrhosis is very likely noninferior to longer courses for all-cause mortality, challenging long-standing advice.

New research in JAMA Internal Medicine has challenged the current guideline recommending 5-7 days of preventive antibiotics ...

Current guidelines for patients with cirrhosis and upper-GI bleeding recommend 5 to 7 days of antibiotic prophylaxis to ...

Prophylactic antibiotic use before tunneled cuffed catheter insertion was not linked to a lower rate of early hemodialysis ...

But a 1988 workshop sponsored by the ADA concluded that the scientific data did not support the need for -- or effectiveness of -- antibiotic prophylaxis. Further, the workshop determined that the use ...

Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis that lasts for 24 hours or less is as protective against surgical site infections as extended prophylaxis in patients undergoing cystectomy with ileal urinary ...

The proportion of members of the universal antibiotic prophylaxis group who experienced at least one infection during early-phase therapy was 13.1 percent, about 50 percent lower than the patients ...

Implementation of an antibiotic prophylaxis protocol improved compliance but did not change surgical site infection rates, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

The rationale for antibiotic prophylaxis prior to dental work stems from the pathophysiological model that late PJI (occurring at least 3 months after arthroplasty, and often much later) are ...

Surgery > Orthopedics Beefed-Up Antibiotic Prophylaxis No Help for Post-Arthroplasty Infections — And adding vancomycin to cefazolin may have increased surgical-site infections after knee ...