Rahul Singh
Reasoning about molecular similarity and properties
Proceedings. IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference
laparoscopic pyloromyotomy lp treatment infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis ihps clean case low expected rates postoperative surgical site infection ssi previous studies shown low risk ssi following lp also large variations utilization prophylactic antibiotics goal study review use preoperative antibiotics lp compare ssi incidence performed retrospective singlecenter analysis patients undergoing lp infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis large quaternary childrens hospital january 2017 june 2020 subjects 4 mo old exclusion criteria lost followup within 30 postoperatively required open conversion intraoperatively statistical analysis performed using fishers exact test twotailed independent ttests descriptive statistics twohundred twentyseven patients included mean population age 57 wk 811 male preoperative antibiotics administered 39 patients 13 n 3 patients developed ssi within 30 operation analysis patients received preoperative antibiotics revealed difference age 572 wk versus 572 wk 225 038 p 070 sex 41 males versus 32 females p 039 length stay t225 094 p 035 postoperative ssi 11 versus 14 p 0999 large variability noted antibiotic utilization surgeon patients undergoing lp difference ssi rates whether patients received preoperative antibiotics large variation utilization measures needed decrease usage prophylactic antibiotics lp