SCIP Surgical Prophylaxis?

One of the most frequent questions I am used to be asked is about when antibiotic prophylaxis should be used in performing foot and ankle surgery.  I have an entire lecture on this topic where I go through the data, or lack thereof, on the subject and suggest the clinical situations where prophy has traditionally been utilized (i.e. surgery longer than 2 hours, trauma surgery, immunocompromised hosts, etc).  More and more the question posed to me has become: “Warren, my hospital requires me to use prophylactic antibiotics even when I don’t feel they are necessary.  They have actually threatened to take away my surgical privileges if I don’t use them.  What can I do about that?”  Unfortunately, the answer is… not much

One of the most frequent questions I am used to be asked is about when antibiotic prophylaxis should be used in performing foot and ankle surgery.  I have an entire lecture on this topic where I go through the data, or lack thereof, on the subject and suggest the clinical situations where prophy has traditionally been utilized (i.e. surgery longer than 2 hours, trauma surgery, immunocompromised hosts, etc).  More and more the question posed to me has become: “Warren, my hospital requires me to use prophylactic antibiotics even when I don’t feel they are necessary.  They have actually threatened to take away my surgical privileges if I don’t use them.  What can I do about that?”  Unfortunately, the answer is… not much

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SCIP Surgical Prophylaxis?

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