October 20, 2015
Potential burden of antibiotic resistance on surgical patients
Editor's Note
Some 120,000 more patients would get surgical site infections (SSIs) and 6,300 more would die from those infections if antibiotics given before surgery become 30% less effective, this study finds.
Researchers estimated that between 38.7% and 50.9% of pathogens causing SSIs in the US are resistant to standard prophylactic antibiotics.
More data are needed to establish how antibiotic prophylaxis recommendations should be modified to meet the increasing rates of resistance, the researchers say.
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