Prophylactic Antibiotic Use Prior to Port Placement and Its Effect on Insertion-Related Infection Rates: A Five-Year Retrospective Review

Prophylactic Antibiotic Use Prior to Port Placement and Its Effect on Insertion-Related Infection Rates: A Five-Year Retrospective Review

Purpose The aim of this study was to compare insertion-related port infection rates between patients who received intraprocedural prophylactic antibiotics versus those who did not.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hubert E. Smith, Saher S. Sabri, Neil K. Jain, Zuby J. Syed, Quang H. Nguyen, Donna C. Buckley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2024-01-01
Series:The Arab Journal of Interventional Radiology
Subjects:
antibiotics
implanted port
infection
vascular
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0044-1779492

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http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0044-1779492

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