#96 – The Tortured Stewards & Surgeons Department
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Optimizing Antibiotic Use in Post-Operative Care
Exploring evolving guidelines on post-operative antimicrobial duration, this chapter discusses the risks associated with prolonged antibiotic use and emphasizes the consensus to discontinue prophylaxis at surgical closure to prevent complications like surgical site infections. Surgeons' roles as antimicrobial stewards, challenges in convincing colleagues to discontinue antibiotics, ongoing trials addressing this issue, and multiple scenarios in surgical procedures are analyzed to highlight the importance of judicious antibiotic use in optimizing patient care.
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