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Re-dosing patients with prophylactic antibiotics during lengthy cardiac surgery substantially reduces the infection rate, according to Dr. Giorgio Zanetti of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and his associates.
Although guidelines recommend intra-operative re-dosing during long procedures to maintain effective concentrations of antibiotics, the actual benefit of this practice has...
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