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Volume 7, Number 5—October 2001
Research

Intraoperative Redosing of Cefazolin and Risk for Surgical Site Infection in Cardiac Surgery

Giorgio Zanetti*†Comments to Author , Richard Giardina*, and Richard Platt*‡
Author affiliations: *Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the CDC Eastern Massachusetts Prevention Epicenter, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; ‡Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Table 1

Characteristics of patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Intraoperative antibiotic redosing
Variable Yes (n = 459) No (n = 1,089) p
Mean age (range, years) 65.2 (17-91) 65.7 (20-92) NSa
Mean duration of surgeryb 393 (241-900) 345 (241-700) 0.0001
Male sex (%) 328 (71.5) 744 (68.3) NS
Type of surgery
CABG 317 (69.1) 784 (72.0) NS
Others 142 (30.9) 305 (28.0)
Reoperationc 53 (11.6) 105 (9.6) NS

aNS = not significant; CABG = coronary artery bypass graft.
bMinutes elapsed between administration of preoperative antibiotics and skin closure.
cReoperation within the same hospital stay is included, except for surgery following a diagnosis of surgical site infection.

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