Are prophylactic antibiotics necessary in elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy regardless of patient risk?

摘要

PurposeThe average rate of surgical site infections (SSIs) for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has been reported in the literature to be between 0.4% and 6.3%. Also, these recent reviews have concluded that a prophylactic antibiotics for elective LCs in low-risk patients is not useful, but there were no results in high-risk patients.