2018 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 285-290
Several guidelines for preventing surgical site infections have been announced recently, and anesthesiologists have started paying attention to antimicrobial dosage. Although some clinical guidelines recommend that 2.0 g of cefazolin be administered to patients weighing >60-80 kg and 3.0 g be administered to those weighing >120 kg, we administered 1.0 g to all patients. We investigated whether patient weight and other factors were related to onset of SSI. We found that the frequency of SSI is higher in patients with heavy body weight. Multivariate analysis revealed that bleeding and duration of surgery were also meaningful factors.
