Executive summary of the Consensus Document of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC) and of the Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC) in antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery

Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin (Engl Ed). 2021 Jan;39(1):29-40. doi: 10.1016/j.eimc.2020.02.017. Epub 2020 Jul 21.
[Article in English, Spanish]

Abstract

Antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery is one of the most effective measures for preventing surgical site infection, although its use is frequently inadequate and may even increase the risk of infection, toxicities and bacterial resistance. As a result of advances in surgical techniques and the emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms, the current guidelines for prophylaxis need to be revised. La Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas (Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology) (SEIMC) together with the Asociación Española de Cirujanos (Spanish Association of Surgeons) (AEC) have revised and updated the recommendations for antibiotic prophylaxis to adapt them to any type of surgical intervention and to current epidemiology. This document gathers together the recommendations on antimicrobial prophylaxis in the various procedures, with doses, duration, prophylaxis in special patient groups, and in epidemiological settings of multidrug resistance to facilitate standardized management and the safe, effective and rational use of antibiotics in elective surgery.

Keywords: Antibiotic prophylaxis; Infección de localización quirúrgica; Infection prevention; Prevención de la infección; Procedimientos quirúrgicos; Profilaxis antibiótica; Surgical procedures; Surgical site infection.

Publication types

  • Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis
  • Communicable Diseases*
  • Consensus
  • Humans
  • Surgeons*
  • Surgical Wound Infection / prevention & control