A higher cefazolin dose was not associated with decreased rates of surgical site infections among obese patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery, study data showed.

Table 1 summarizes the antimicrobial recommendations for bariatric surgical prophylaxis ... concentration of the antibiotic. [65] The authors concluded that altered dosing regimens may be required ...

Over 70% of patients increased their dosing interval ... have type I or type II HAE and have started long-term prophylactic (LTP) treatment with lanadelumab between August 2018 and May 2021.

The findings indicate that a 24-hour course of antibiotics is as effective as extended-duration prophylaxis in preventing surgical site infections (SSIs) within 90 days post-surgery. The research ...

Researchers have found in a new new study that Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis was effective ... for preventing STIs that involves taking a dose of doxycycline, a common and well-tolerated ...

Pediatric patients (0–18 years) admitted to medical and surgical wards ... acquired), the indication for antibiotic use (therapeutic or prophylactic), and the antimicrobial agent(s) prescribed, ...

A new meta-analysis from Brown University has found evidence that vancomycin may not ... preventing SSIs after spine surgery. He said, “Disagreements likely stem from variations in study design, such ...

To date, the optimal dosing strategy for VTE prophylaxis in critically ill ... clinicians are left to extrapolate data from the bariatric surgery literature due to the limited amount of data ...

15 The investigators also completed a switch analysis in which bleeding rates, dosing frequency, and factor consumption were examined among patients who were switched from prophylaxis therapy with ...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Obstetric and Gynecological Surgery In obstetric and gynecological surgery ... The first RCT compared single-dose prophylactic ceftriaxone to a triple drug combination of ...