Literature DB >> 7000228

Prophylactic use of metronidazole in preventing wound sepsis after elective cholecystectomy.

A K Halsall, C L Welsh, J L Craven, D S Hopton, R N Peel.   

Abstract

The effect of intravenous metronidazole as prophylaxis against postoperative wound infection was studied in a prospective, randomized, double-blind controlled trial of 116 patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy. No significant difference was found in the infection rate between the treated and the control groups.

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Year:  1980        PMID: 7000228     DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800670806

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Br J Surg        ISSN: 0007-1323            Impact factor:   6.939


  4 in total

1.  A prospective, randomised trial of prophylactic antibiotics versus bag extraction in the prophylaxis of wound infection in laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Authors:  R Harling; N Moorjani; C Perry; A P MacGowan; M H Thompson
Journal:  Ann R Coll Surg Engl       Date:  2000-11       Impact factor: 1.891

Review 2.  Antibiotics in the treatment of biliary infection.

Authors:  J S Dooley; J M Hamilton-Miller; W Brumfitt; S Sherlock
Journal:  Gut       Date:  1984-09       Impact factor: 23.059

3.  Clinical trials of antimicrobials in surgery.

Authors:  J M Watts; P J McDonald; P J Woods
Journal:  World J Surg       Date:  1982-05       Impact factor: 3.352

Review 4.  Prophylaxis of postoperative infections.

Authors:  D H Wittmann; R E Condon
Journal:  Infection       Date:  1991       Impact factor: 3.553

  4 in total

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