Volume : VIII, Issue : IX, September - 2018

STUDY ON SINGLE DOSE ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS IN LICHTENSTEIN TENSION FREE HERNIA REPAIR

Dr. S. Nirmaladevi, Dr. N. Arunmozhivijay

Abstract :

Inguinal hernia repair procedures belong to the group of the most commonly performed procedures in general surgery and are among the first procedures to be performed by junior surgeons during their training period. It is considered as one of the so called ‘clean‘ operations which may not require antibiotic coverage. Many surgeons, however, continue to give antibiotics empirically for all cases. This practice was more widely used after the establishment of the tension free mesh repair technique as the method of choice for hernia repair, because of the fear of infection of the introduced foreign body. We planned to study the efficiency of single dose antibiotic prophylaxis in Lichtenstein tension free hernia repair.we found the advantage of using single dose antibiotic prophylaxis as a part of elective tension free mesh inguinal hernia repair. There was significant difference in duration of hospital stay for patients receiving single dose antibiotic. Therefore, this study recommends the use of single dose antibiotic prophylaxis lichtenstein tension free mesh hernia repair as it can prevent the development of bacterial resistance. Further, it can make the surgery for inguinal hernia much more economical.

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Dr.S.NIRMALADEVI, Dr.N.ARUNMOZHIVIJAY, STUDY ON SINGLE DOSE ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS IN LICHTENSTEIN TENSION FREE HERNIA REPAIR, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-9 | September-2018

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