Prophylactic Postoperative Antibiotics May Not Reduce Pin Site Infections After External Fixation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pin infection continues to be a nuisance when using definitive external fixation. Prophylactic antibiotic treatment has been proposed in an effort to decrease pin complications.

Questions/purposes

We performed a prospective, randomized, single-blinded study to answer the following questions: (1) what was the effect of a 10-day course of oral prophylactic antibiotics administered immediately after external fixation surgery on the incidence of a subsequent pin infection, (2) what was the effect on the severity of a subsequent pin infection, and (3) what was the effect on the timing of a subsequent pin infection?

Methods

Patients were randomized into antibiotic treatment and control groups, and incidence, severity, and time of onset of pin infection were recor

SUBMITTER: Fragomen AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5481261 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature