title: [Clinical experience with piperacillin in the prophylaxis of post-operative infections].
abstract: Ninety patients who had undergone surgery have been treated with piperacillin as a prophylaxis for hospital infections. Twenty-two (24.4%) emergency operations and sixty-eight (75.6%) elective ones have been performed. Thirty-five open drainages, seven vacuum drainages and fifty-five urinary catheters have been placed. Post-operative infections occurred in 18 patients (20%), five of them submitted to emergency operations and thirteen submitted to elective operations. In eight cases an open drainage had been placed and in three cases a vacuum rate. The Author concludes that the hospital infections rate agrees with that occurring in the quoted sources; that open drainages, especially if placed through surgical wound, have main responsibilities for infections, and that piperacillin acted as a very well tolerated antibiotic and a highly manageable and effective one, offering therefore a good prophylaxis for hospital infections.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale Civile, Saluzzo, Cuneo.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Santi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010878:Piperacillin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011292:Premedication
chemical_list: D010878:Piperacillin
vernacular_title: Esperienza clinica della piperacillina nella profilassi delle infezioni post-chirurgiche.