Quick Review: Open Fracture Antibiotics

Guidelines

• East Practice Management Guidelines Work Group: Update to Practice Management Guidelines for Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Open Fractures, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

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Primary Literature

• Gustilo and Anderson. Prevention of infection in the treatment of one thousand and twenty-five open fractures of long bones

• Evaluation of Piperacillin-Tazobactam for Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Traumatic Grade III Open Fractures

• Piperacillin/Tazobactam versus Tobramycin-Based Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Type III Open Fractures

• Impact of an emergency medicine pharmacist on initial antibiotic prophylaxis for open fractures

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Review Article

• Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Open Fractures: Evidence, Evolving Issues, and Recommendations

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Podcast & Blogs

• Pharm So Hard Podcast: Open Fracture Antibiotics

• Role Of Antibiotics In Open Fractures Of The Finger

• EM@3AM: Open Fracture