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Originally Posted by blueash
If you use google scholar as your search engine you can search for medical studies using whatever parameters you choose You may then look at the hits. Some will only be links to a brief summary as the whole article will be hidden behind a paywall. Other times you can read the whole study. You will find the answer to the risk vs benefit of prophylactic antibiotics in those studies much more likely than on this forum.
For articles on use in heart surgery since 2011 you will get results such as this
prophylactic antibiotics heart surgery - Google Scholar |
Thanks for the information.
JAMA Network | JAMA Surgery | Timing of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis and the Risk of Surgical Site Infection
The following statement, from the above link, got my attention:
"Numerous studies have failed to demonstrate that adherence to the Surgical Care Improvement Project prophylactic antibiotic timely administration measure is associated with decreased surgical site infection (SSI)."
Therefore it seems if The Villages hospital is making progress with this problem it's not because of prophylactic antibiotics. We still don't know the extent of the problem, like what is their infection rate and how does it compare with previous years. Or: How many people die each year from infections? There's no substitute for them being straight-forward with the public.