Antibiotic prophylaxis in electively treated facial fractures. 1st part

Authors

  • José Manuel Díaz Fernández
  • Angel Sánchez Torres
  • Milagros C. Gross Fernández

Keywords:

PROSPECTIVE STUDIES, COMPARATIVE STUDY, MANDIBULAR FRACTURES, surgery, CIGOMATIC INVOICES, INFECTION OF OPERATING WOUND, prevention and control, PREMEDICATION, PENICILLINES, Therapeutic use, ERYTHROMYCIN, Therapeutic use.

Abstract

A prospective and comparative study was conducted on the possibility of using prophylactic antibiotics in 100 patients with facial fractures, operated on electively. The prevalence rate of infection was 15%, with a slight predominance of the control group. The highest infection rate was obtained in potentially contaminated and clean wounds with general infection rates of 9.7 and 4.8%, respectively, which fall within international parameters. Also highlighted are the infection rates presented by the combined access route and the zygomatic fractures.

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Published

1995-07-01

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Díaz Fernández JM, Sánchez Torres A, Gross Fernández MC. Antibiotic prophylaxis in electively treated facial fractures. 1st part. Rev Cubana Estomatol [Internet]. 1995 Jul. 1 [cited 2025 Mar. 14];32(2):90-4. Available from: https://revestomatologia.sld.cu/index.php/est/article/view/2844

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 2 (1995): JUL- DEC

Section

Research Article

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