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Influence of antibiotic prophylaxis on wound infection incidence after elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy
1General Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Aim:
There have been controversies about whether prophylactic antibiotics are necessary in elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The aim of this study is to analyse the effect of different risk factors and antibiotic prophylaxis on the rate of wound infection following elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Methods:
This is a retrospective study of patients with elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy from January 2021 to December 2022. The evaluated factors were: gender, age, diabetes, smoking, body mass index, haemoglobin level, American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification, surgery duration, intraoperative bile spillage and use of antibiotic prophylaxis.
Results:
This study included 243 patients. The incidence of wound infection was significantly higher in male patients (p = 0.021). There was no statistically significant correlation between other risk factors and postoperative wound infection.
Conclusion:
Elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients do not benefit from antibiotic prophylaxis, which should be limited to complicated and acute cases.
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