Wound antibiotics in gastro-intestinal surgery comparison of ampicillin with penicillin and sulphadiazine
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 59 (3), 184-186
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800590308
Abstract
Ampicillin was compared with a penicillin and sulphadiazine combination as a topical wound application in patients undergoing biliary or gastrointestinal surgery in a controlled study. Eleven of the 53 patients having a topical application of penicillin and sulphadiazine developed wound sepsis (20·8 per cent) compared with 4 of the 59 patients receiving ampicillin (6·8 per cent). This difference is significant (P≤0·01).This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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