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The Role of Antibiotics in the Management of Open Fractures
- Source :
- The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. 56:532-541
- Publication Year :
- 1974
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1974.
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Abstract
- In 310 patients, divided into groups receiving penicillin and streptomycin, cephalothin, or no antibiotics, culture specimens were taken at four stages of triage, and each patient was followed and observed for infection. A correlation was made between retrieval of bacteria after injury and incidence of infection. In control patients the incidence of infection was 13.9 per cent while in the group receiving penicillin and streptomycin it was 9.7 per cent, the difference not being statistically significant. The group of patients receiving cephalothin had a significantly lower infection rate of 2.3 per cent.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.drug_class
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Antibiotics
General Medicine
Infection rate
Surgery
Penicillin
Penicillin resistance
Streptomycin
Internal medicine
Fracture fixation
polycyclic compounds
medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00219355
- Volume :
- 56
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........cd2de0f04d1455895570e5e358b03def