Intraoperative antibiotic wound irrigation.
Postoperatively, wound infections in arterial procedures may have calamitous consequences with loss of limb and of life and is associated with significant financial, physical and emotional upsets by patients. Good surgical technique carried out in a clean operating room and hospital environment has a postoperative rate of wound infection of 1 to 5 per cent. By using intermittent intraoperative antibiotic wound irrigation, the postoperative rate of wound infection can be reduced to the vanishing point, that is, 0.1 per cent.
D000287:Administration, Topical; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000494:pharmacology; D002512:Cephalothin / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D007612:Kanamycin / Q000097:blood; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000187:drug effects; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation / Q000379:methods*
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D007612:Kanamycin; D002512:Cephalothin