[Adequate Perioperative Use of Antibiotics in Thoracic Surgery].

CONCLUSION: The commonly used antibiotics for perioperative prophylaxis in thoracic surgery cover only some of the pathogens responsible for preoperative airway colonisation and postoperative pneumonia. Therefore, perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis should be given as a single shot just before surgery and postoperative pneumonia should be treated as a hospital acquired pneumonia with respect to the local pathogen and resistance pattern. PMID: 31269514 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Zentralbl Chir Source Type: research