Susanna Esposito, Mino Zucchelli, Sonia Bianchini, Laura Nicoletti, Sara Monaco, Erika Rigotti, Laura Venditto, Cinzia Auriti, Caterina Caminiti, Elio Castagnola, Giorgio Conti, Maia De Luca, Daniele Donà, Luisa Galli, Silvia Garazzino, Stefania La Grutta, Laura Lancella, Mario Lima, Giuseppe Maglietta, Gloria Pelizzo, Nicola Petrosillo, Giorgio Piacentini, Simone Pizzi, Alessandro Simonini, Simonetta Tesoro, Elisabetta Venturini, Fabio Mosca, Annamaria Staiano, Nicola Principi, On Behalf Of The Peri-Operative Prophylaxis In Neonatal And Paediatric Age Pop-NeoPed Study Group
Pediatric neurosurgery is a highly specialized branch of surgery in which surgical site infections (SSIs) are potentially serious complications that can also adversely affect a good surgical outcome, compromising functional recovery and, in some cases, even putting the patient's life at risk. The main aim of this consensus document is to provide clinicians with a series of recommendations on antimicrobial prophylaxis for neonates and children undergoing neurosurgery. The following scenarios were considered: (1) craniotomy or cranial/cranio-facial approach to craniosynostosis; (2) neurosurgery with a trans-nasal-trans-sphenoidal approach; (3) non-penetrating head injuries; (4) penetrating head fracture; (5) spinal surgery (extradural and intradural); (6) shunt surgery or neuroendoscopy; (7) neuroendovascular procedures...
June 26, 2022: Antibiotics