Single dose carbenicillin versus T-tube drainage in patients undergoing vaginal hysterectomy
Galle, P.C.; Urban, R.B.; Homesley, H.D.; Jobson, V.W.; Wheeler, A.S.
Surgery Gynecology and Obstetrics 153(3): 351-352
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0039-6087 PMID: 7022706 Document Number: 179431
In this study, a prospective, randomized, non-blinded report, single dose carbenicillin prophylaxis preoperatively is compared with T-tube suction drainage postoperatively in 50 patients undergoing vaginal hysterectomy. A higher incidence of febrile morbidity, fever index units, cellulitis of the vaginal cuff and prolonged hospitalization postoperatively was experienced by the group patients with T-tube suction drainage, P less than 0.05. Our satisfactory results with single dose carbenicillin prophylaxis preoperatively are similar to those of previous studies using more extended antibiotic prophylaxis perioperatively.