A shorter course of prophylactic antibiotics, or even no course at all, appeared to be noninferior to longer courses in ...

Current guidelines for patients with cirrhosis and upper-GI bleeding recommend 5 to 7 days of antibiotic prophylaxis to ...

The proportion of members of the universal antibiotic prophylaxis group who experienced at least one infection during early-phase therapy was 13.1 percent, about 50 percent lower than the patients ...

Pooled data show that no or shorter antibiotic prophylaxis for upper GI bleeding in cirrhosis is very likely noninferior to longer courses for all-cause mortality, challenging long-standing advice.

Prophylactic antibiotic use before tunneled cuffed catheter insertion was not linked to a lower rate of early hemodialysis ...

New research in JAMA Internal Medicine has challenged the current guideline recommending 5-7 days of preventive antibiotics ...

The researchers found that, compared to patients without antibiotic prophylaxis, patients in the prophylactic antibiotic arms had a reduced risk of developing a skin rash in all studies (odds ...

Objective To evaluate the need for antibiotic prophylaxis in orthognathic surgery. Design Double-blind, randomised, controlled trial. Intervention Patients undergoing Le Fort I osteotomy with ...

Patient groups that may have received routine antibiotic prophylaxis in the past but are now inappropriate for it include those with mitral and aortic valve disease, rheumatic heart disease, or ...

Some people carry C. diff bacteria in their intestines and never develop any symptoms, but antibiotics can make the bacteria turn deadly. The problem is that antibiotics not only wipe out bad bugs ...