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  • Title: Perioperative antibiotics: when, why?
    Author: Allen MS.
    Journal: Thorac Surg Clin; 2005 May; 15(2):229-35, vi. PubMed ID: 15999521.
    Abstract:
    The use of prophylactic antibiotics in general thoracic surgery is well established. This article explains the rationale for modern-day surgical wound infection prophylaxis, the why and the when. Various arguments about the use of antibiotics to prevent empyema and pneumonia after a thoracic operation also are presented.
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