The routine use of prophylactic intravenous antibiotics does not reduce the risk of deep infection after arthroscopic meniscectomy, a retrospective study suggests. Jack M. Bert, MD, and colleagues at ...

A study published online March 20 in JAMA Surgery finds no evidence that prophylactic antibiotics must be administered within the 60 minutes before surgery. The study found that the risk for surgical ...

Immunosuppressed patients who undergo anterior nasal packing have similar rates of clinically significant infections regardless of whether they receive prophylactic antibiotics, a study finds.

Sepsis is an infrequent but serious adverse risk of transrectal ultrasonography-guided prostate biopsy. A new study evaluated whether the use of single-dose ertapenem, a broad-spectrum antibiotic, ...

Deep infection following total hip replacement can be a serious and costly complication. Whether the potential for infection warrants prophylactic use of antibiotic-containing bone cement was the ...

A regimen of oral non-absorbable prophylactic antibiotics (kanamycin-vancomycin-nystatin) was given to nine severely neutropaenic leukaemic patients on cytotoxic therapy (11 courses), in conjunction ...

BALTIMORE -- There was no benefit with a longer- versus shorter-duration prophylactic antibiotic regimen in reducing surgical site infections after endoprosthetic reconstruction for lower-extremity ...

Prophylactic antibiotics significantly reduce the risk of serious bacterial infections in children during the critical first month of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common ...

Thousands of women could have been spared pain and infection if they were given prophylactic antibiotics following assisted childbirth, advise researchers. The researchers are now calling for health ...

Background. The use of prophylactic antibiotics for severe burns in general settings remains controversial and is not suggested by recent guidelines owing to lack of evidence for efficacy. We examined ...

This, says Dr. Stacy Holzbauer, is why efforts to curtail antibiotic over-prescribing tend to neglect the role of dentists: "Nobody goes to their dentist when they have diarrhea." Holzbauer, a career ...