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  Vol. 121 No. 1, January 1986 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Efficacy of Short-Course Antibiotic Prophylaxis After Penetrating Intestinal Injury

A Prospective Randomized Trial

E. Patchen Dellinger, MD; Margaret J. Wertz, MN, RN; E. Stan Lennard, MD, ScD; Michael R. Oreskovich, MD

Arch Surg. 1986;121(1):23-30.


Abstract

• Infection is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality occurring more than 48 hours after penetrating abdominal injury. Antibiotics are routinely administered to patients with penetrating intestinal injuries and are usually given for five days or more. We randomized 116 patients with confirmed penetrating injuries of the colon and/or small bowel to receive either 12 hours or five days of antibiotics. Age, sex, weapon, severity of injury, and other risk factors were evenly distributed between groups. Twenty-one patients (18%) developed traumarelated infections, 28 (24%) any infection, and three (2.6%) died. There were no significant differences between groups in any category of outcome. For patients with penetrating intestinal or colonic injury, a 12-hour course of antibiotics is as effective as a five-day course and has the advantage of lower cost and, theoretically, fewer side effects.

(Arch Surg 1986;121:23-30)



Author Affiliations

From the Department of Surgery, University Hospital and Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.


Footnotes

Accepted for publication Aug 26, 1985.

Read before the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, New Orleans, April 30, 1985.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, ZA-16, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104 (Dr Dellinger).



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