A Prospective Comparison of Two Regimens of Prophylactic Antibiotics in Abdominal Trauma
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health
- Vol. 24 (4), 307-310
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-198404000-00004
Abstract
To determine the best antibiotic regimen to employ in patients undergoing laparotomy for trauma, a randomized prospective study was designed comparing cefoxitin alone with a triple-drug regime of an aminoglycoside, ampicillin, and clindamycin. One hundred nineteen consecutive patients sustaining abdominal trauma (97 penetrating; 22 blunt) were divided by date of admission to a 24-hour course of antibiotics. The overall infection rate was 16.0%, with 14.5% of the cefoxitin-treated patients, and 18.0% of the triple-drug-treated patients developing an infectious complication. Excluding remote site infections, the abdominal wound and intraperitoneal infection rates were 13.0% for cefoxitin-treated patients, and 12.0% for triple-drug-treated patients. There was one instance of oliguric renal failure questionably related to an aminoglycoside. It is concluded that a 24-hour course of cefoxitin is a safe and effective prophylactic antibiotic regime in patients undergoing laparotomy for trauma.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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