Antibiotics Utilization for Perioperative Inpatients in an Orthopedics Department
- VernacularTitle:骨科住院患者围手术期抗菌药物使用评价
- Author:
Xiaojun LIU
;
Zhiying CHENG
;
Wei CHE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Antibiotics drug;
Orthopedics;
Usage evaluation
- From:
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology
1994;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To analyze and review the antibiotics utilization for the perioperative inpatients in our orthopedics department,and to evaluate the rationality of the utilization.METHODS Totally 267 cases of inpatients receiving operations from Sep to Nov,2008 were selected in our orthopedics department,then the methods of drug use review and drug frequency analysis were applied to analyze and review the effects of antibiotics utilization with retrospective statistics.RESULTS All of the 267 inpatients have taken antibiotics,of which the cephalosporins were the most frequently used.The antibiotics commonly used were cefminox,cefmetazole,and cefuroxime.The antibiotics of the highest daily defined dose(DDD) costs and total costs were cefamandole,flomoxef,etc.The average days of antibiotics utilization for clean operations,clean-contaminated operations,and contaminated operations were 7 days,8 days,and 9 days,respectively and 86% of the patients were antibiotic combination usage.CONCLUSIONS There is inappropriateness in the antibiotics utilization during perioperations of orthopedics.Guidelines of drug use must be followed to improve the drug usage.
