How Successful Is Antibiotic Treatment for Superficial Surgical Site Infections After Open Fracture? A Fluid Lavage of Open Wounds (FLOW) Cohort Secondary Analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: Our secondary analysis of prospectively collected FLOW data suggests that antibiotics alone can be an appropriate treatment option when treating superficial SSIs after an open fracture wound, especially when promptly diagnosed. Further research with longer follow-up time is needed to better identify the natural history of superficial SSIs and possibly some dormant or subclinical infections to help clinicians in the treatment decision-making process. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, therapeutic study. PMID: 32412929 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - May 7, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Prada C, Tanner SL, Marcano-Fernández FA, Bzovsky S, Schemitsch EH, Jeray K, Petrisor B, Bhandari M, Sprague S Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research

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