{"title":"The Practice of Preoperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis and the Adherence to ASHP Guideline in Different Hospitals in Riyadh","authors":"F. Alotaibi","doi":"10.35248/2161-0401.20.10.282","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Appropriately administered antibiotic prophylaxis reduces the incidence of surgical wound infection. Prophylaxis is uniformly recommended for all clean-contaminated, contaminated and dirty procedures. It is considered optional for most clean procedures, although it may be indicated for certain patients and clean procedures that fulfill specific risk criteria.","PeriodicalId":94103,"journal":{"name":"Journal of physical chemistry & biophysics","volume":"73 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of physical chemistry & biophysics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2161-0401.20.10.282","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Appropriately administered antibiotic prophylaxis reduces the incidence of surgical wound infection. Prophylaxis is uniformly recommended for all clean-contaminated, contaminated and dirty procedures. It is considered optional for most clean procedures, although it may be indicated for certain patients and clean procedures that fulfill specific risk criteria.