The Indications for Antibiotics for Hand Fractures

Anton: We know for all open long bone fractures that they all need antibiotics. For hand fractures, my understanding is that because the vascularity is so good and for various other reasons that it's not quite as urgent to get those antibiotics in. Anton: Not every single open hand fracture actually needs antibiotics. But particularly when we talk about the classic quote unquote open fracture in the emergency department,. That's really a debatable one for the utility of antibiotics.