PMID: 7546806Jan 1, 1995Paper

Prophylaxis in cardiac surgery. A controlled randomized comparison between cefazolin and cefuroxime

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery : Official Journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
F WellensP De Somer

Abstract

In a prospective randomized two center trial, short-term prophylaxis with cefuroxime (CFX) in 189 patients was compared with cefazolin (CFZ) in 196 patients submitted to elective cardiac surgery. A total of 3 g was administered over 24 h in both groups. One major adverse reaction with CFX was noted. Patients were prospectively screened by infectious disease nurses for surgical wound and secondary infections. Sternal wound infections occurred in eight patients treated with CFX and all were minor. One patient from this group eventually died of infectious causes. In the CFZ-treated patients two major and six minor wound infections occurred requiring extensive debridement in two. Secondary infections occurred less frequently in the CFX group (13.2 per 100) than in the CFZ group (16.8 per 100) with two infection-related deaths in the CFX and one in the CFZ group. The most commonly identified organisms were Staphylococcus aureus and a variety of gram-negative organisms. No major differences were observed between the CFX and CFZ groups. Short-term administration of 3 g CFZ or CFX in this study could not demonstrate the advantage of one of the antibiotics used over the other in terms of clinical outcome, incidence or site of infection ...Continue Reading

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Apr 30, 1998·Critical Care Clinics·L I LutwickM W Connolly
Mar 7, 2013·Surgical Infections·Dale W BratzlerUNKNOWN Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
Feb 1, 2012·European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery : Official Journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery·Fabiana FerreiraMaria Carmona
Sep 19, 2014·Current Infectious Disease Reports·Natividad BenitoJosé M Miró
Jan 23, 2003·Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals·Wojciech MrowczynskiPrzemyslaw Westerski
Oct 12, 2000·European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery : Official Journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery·I KriarasS Geroulanos

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