New research in JAMA Internal Medicine has challenged the current guideline recommending 5-7 days of preventive antibiotics ...

Pooled data show that no or shorter antibiotic prophylaxis for upper GI bleeding in cirrhosis is very likely noninferior to longer courses for all-cause mortality, challenging long-standing advice.

Current guidelines for patients with cirrhosis and upper-GI bleeding recommend 5 to 7 days of antibiotic prophylaxis to ...

Published results showed extended oral antibiotic prophylaxis was not associated with a reduced risk of periprosthetic joint infection at 90 days or 1 year among patients who underwent total hip ...

A shorter course of prophylactic antibiotics, or even no course at all, appeared to be noninferior to longer courses in ...

Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis that lasts for 24 hours or less is as protective against surgical site infections as extended prophylaxis in patients undergoing cystectomy with ileal urinary ...

The rationale for antibiotic prophylaxis prior to dental work stems from the pathophysiological model that late PJI (occurring at least 3 months after arthroplasty, and often much later) are ...

Surgery > Orthopedics Beefed-Up Antibiotic Prophylaxis No Help for Post-Arthroplasty Infections — And adding vancomycin to cefazolin may have increased surgical-site infections after knee ...

But a 1988 workshop sponsored by the ADA concluded that the scientific data did not support the need for -- or effectiveness of -- antibiotic prophylaxis. Further, the workshop determined that the use ...

Effect of Prophylaxis with Antimicrobials in Patients with Indwelling Catheters Multiple urine cultures were obtained from 59 patients (Table 7).

Archive A Study of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Patients with Acute Heart Failure Authors: Robert G. Petersdorf, M.D., and Richard K. Merchant, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published March 19, 1959 ...