Antibiotic infection prophylaxis in gallbladder surgery--a prospective randomized study.
In the course of 1 year, 180 patients undergoing elective surgery for confirmed cholelithiasis were included in a prospective randomized study in which they either received 2 g of preoperatively applied ceftriaxon intravenously at the beginning of anesthesia or, as an alternative, no antibiotic at all. Infectious wound-healing disturbances occurred postoperatively in 11% in the control group and in no case in the prophylaxis group. The difference is statistically significant.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002439:Cefotaxime / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002443:Ceftriaxone; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000601:surgery*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011292:Premedication; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011897:Random Allocation; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000517:prevention & control*
D002443:Ceftriaxone; D002439:Cefotaxime