Preoperative Antibiotics Influence Culture Yield in the Treatment of Hand, Wrist, and Forearm Infections

Preoperative Antibiotics Influence Culture Yield in the Treatment of Hand, Wrist, and Forearm Infections

Background:. When treating upper-extremity infections, clinicians frequently must decide whether to initiate antibiotics or delay them with the goal of optimizing culture yield at the time of surgical debridement. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the administration of preoperative...

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Main Authors: Lauren K. Dutton, MD, Katharine M. Hinchcliff, MD, Anthony L. Logli, MD, Katherine E. Mallett, MD, Gina A. Suh, MD, Marco Rizzo, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2022-03-01
Series:JBJS Open Access
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/jbjsoa/fulltext/10.2106/JBJS.OA.21.00084

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