• Department of Anal-Colorectal Surgery, The First People’s Hospital, Chengdu 610000, China;
WANG Yongqiang., Email: wangbom@163.com
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Objective  To discuss the relationship between antibiotic prophylaxis and surgical site infection (SSI) in colorectal cancer.
Methods  A survey of 880 patients with colorectal cancer from Jan. 1998 to Dec. 2008 were studied. Patients were divided into two groups by antibiotic duration: ≥24 h group (n=401) and  lt;24 h group (n=479). To compare the differences of surgical site infection between two groups.
Results  For SSI patients, operation time obviously prolonged (P=0.04), or with more blood loss (P=0.03) and longer time use of antibiotics (P=0.04). In colon cancer patients with SSI operation time was significantly different from the cases of colon cancer without SSI (P=0.01), while there was no difference between SSI and operation time, blood loss and duration of antibiotics (P gt;0.05).
Conclusion  Longer operation time, more blood loss and longer bleeding time are the risk factors of surgical site infection. Moreover prolonged antibiotic prophylaxis can not decrease the incidence of SSI.

Citation: CHEN Shijun,WANG Yongqiang.. Relation Between Using Time of Prophylactic Antibiotics and Surgical Site Infection in Colorectal Cancer. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2010, 17(1): 73-76. doi: Copy