Journal article
Antibiotics for abdominal sepsis
New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.372(21), pp.2062-2063
2015
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1503936
PMID: 25992751
Abstract
Major milestones in surgery have included safe sutures to promote tissue integrity, cautery to minimize bleeding, the use of anesthesia to avoid pain, and antisepsis to prevent operative contamination. In the antibiotic era, surgical procedures for source control in abdominal sepsis have been complemented with drugs targeting persistent organisms after luminal inflammation, obstruction, or perforation. The appropriate duration of postsurgical antibiotic therapy has been unclear. 1 However, if safe, shorter courses would be desirable to minimize drug-related adverse events, the selection of antibiotic resistance, and costs. In this issue of the Journal , Sawyer and colleagues 2 present data from the Study ...
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Antibiotics for abdominal sepsis
- Creators
- Richard P WenzelMichael B Edmond
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.372(21), pp.2062-2063
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJMe1503936
- PMID
- 25992751
- ISSN
- 1533-4406
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2015
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983905531802771
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