Antimicrobial prophylaxis is considered sufficient to preserve an acceptable surgical site infection rate in clean orthopaedic and neurosurgeries in dogs

Table 2 Use of antimicrobials in different surgical procedures, included to evaluate the compliance with existing national and in-house guidelines

Surgical procedure	No. of dogs	Dogs receiving antimicrobials			Dogs not receiving antimicrobials	Dogs with missing data regarding the time of antimicrobial administration	Dogs receiving antimicrobial prophylaxis between 30 and 60 min before incision
Surgical procedure	No. of dogs	Preop^a	Prophylaxis^b	Postop^c	Dogs not receiving antimicrobials
All	406	5	377	4	29	20	215/357^d (60.2%)
Fracture stabilization	108	2	102	2	6	6	61/96^d (63.5%)
Cranial cruciate ligament rupture repair	92	1	80	1	12	4	38/76^d (50.0%)
TPLO^e	71	1	60	1	11	3	24/57^d (42.1%)
Extracapsular repair	21	–	20	–	1	1	14/19^d (73.7%)
Patellar luxation repair	57	2	52	–	5	1	32/51^d (62.7%)
Hemilaminectomy and laminectomy	54	–	54	1	–	3	30/51^d (58.8%)
Arthroscopy	39	–	36	–	3	4	21/32^d (65.6%)
Ulnar ostectomy	18	–	16	–	2	1	10/15^d (66.7%)
Arthrodesis	14	–	14	–	–	1	7/13^d (53.8%)
Femoral head and neck excision	13	–	12	–	1	–	8/12^d (66.7%)
Arthrotomy	6	–	6	–	–	–	4/6^d (66.7%)
Coxofemoral luxation repair	5	–	5	–	–	–	4/5^d (80%)

^aPreop, preoperatively: before admission to surgery
^bParenteral administration of antimicrobials in the immediate proximity to surgery. This group also included dogs with preoperative and postoperative antimicrobial administration
^cPostop, postoperatively: after surgery or discharge
^dNumber of dogs with information regarding the time from antimicrobial administration to skin incision
^eTibial plateau levelling osteotomy

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