- 24 Mar 2009
The study revealed that patients who had received antibiotics up to two hours before surgery were as much as 50 percent less likely to develop infection than those patients who received antibiotics either earlier or after their operations.
The researchers say that the two-hour period prior to surgery is the optimum time to give the patient antibiotics because it can help reduce the risk of post-surgery infection and pain, as a consequence reduce the patient’s hospital bill by thousands of dollars by reducing the time of recovery.
5 Important Pain Killer Warnings
Here are some things you should know about over-the-counter pain
killers:
1) Don’t use over-the-counter pain killers for longer than 48 hours before you seek medical advice.
2) Avoid taking aspirin for a few weeks before you are to have surgery.
3) Do not give aspirin to children or teenagers.
4) If you are allergic to aspirin, you may also be allergic to ibuprofen, so don’t take either.
5) Don’t take ibuprofen if you have kidney disease
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