Pre-surgery antibiotics
A recent discovery shows that giving patients antibiotics an hour before surgery
greatly reduces post-surgical infections.
About 3,000 hospitals took part in the study, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. They found that If antibiotics are given more
than one hour before surgery, the effect has worn off by the time surgery
begins. If antibiotics are given after surgery begins, an infection might
already have set in.
Of about 15 million surgeries performed each year in the U.S., 300,000 patients
develop surgical site infections. The study provides an opportunity for
hospitals to reduce that number significantly.
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