A single-center intervention to discontinue postoperative antibiotics after spinal fusion

British Journal of Neurosurgery
Ariane LewisDonato Pacione

Abstract

Postoperative antibiotics (PA) are often administered to patients after instrumented spinal surgery until all drains are removed to prevent surgical site infections (SSI). This practice is discouraged by numerous medical society guidelines, so our institutional Neurosurgery Quality Improvement Committee decided to discontinue use of PA for this population. We retrospectively reviewed data for patients who had instrumented spinal surgery at our institution for seven months before and after this policy change and compared the frequency of SSI and development of antibiotic related complications in patients who received PA to those who did not (non-PA). We identified 188 PA patients and 158 non-PA patients. Discontinuation of PA did not result in an increase in frequency of SSI (2% of PA patients vs. 0.6% of non-PA patients, p = .4). Growth of resistant bacteria was not significantly reduced in the non-PA period in comparison to the PA period (2% in the PA period and 1% in the non-PA period). The cost of antibiotics for PA patients was $5,499.62, whereas the cost of antibiotics for the non-PA patients was $0. On a per patient basis, the cost associated with antibiotics and resistant infections was significantly greater for patients...Continue Reading

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