Infectionrate without antibiotic prophylaxis for clean contaminated surgery is
High-Yield Explanation
Type of surgery
Infection rate with prophylaxis
Infection rate without prophyloxis
Clean surgery
1 - 2 %
1 - 2 %
Clean contaminated surgery
3%
6 - 9 %
Contaminated surgery
6 %
13 - 20%
Dirty surgery
7%
40%