Abstract
Immune response in dialysis patients is suppressed and these patients are susceptible to bacterial infections. Therefore, minimal use of antibiotics in dialysis patients is recommended to avoid generating drug-resistant bacteria. However, minor surgeries including vascular access surgery, tendon sheath incision and peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter placement are inevitable in dialysis patients and evidence-based recommendations on the judicious use of antibiotics are not currently available for these procedures. In this study, the optimal antibiotic prophylaxis for minor surgeries was evaluated. This is a retrospective study. In dialysis patients at Kawashima Hospital, a three-step reduction of antibiotic use was performed in 651 cases of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and tendon sheath incision surgeries from July 2009 through October 2012. Moreover, general surgical guidelines-recommended dose of preoperative antibiotics only were used in 532 cases of arteriovenous graft (AVG) and PD catheter placement from January 2010 through October 2012. The surgical site was observed for 2 weeks after the surgery. In only one case of AVF surgery, redness of the skin around the stitches was noticed 5 days after the surgery, which was healed ...Continue Reading
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