- Title
- Stable post-TRUS biopsy sepsis rates and antibiotic resistance over 5 years in patients from Newcastle, New South Wales
- Creator
- Mirmilstein, George; Ferguson, John
- Relation
- Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 202, Issue 5, p. 237-237
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja14.01571
- Publisher
- Australasian Medical Publishing Company
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Sepsis after transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided prostate biopsy is a potentially serious complication. Antibiotic prophylaxis reduces the risk of sepsis; however, practices are highly variable among urologists. Several reports show increasing incidence of bacterial resistance in patients with sepsis after TRUSguided biopsy. Preprocedure screening of high-risk patients using cultures from rectal swabs would allow targeted prophylaxis. We performed a retrospective audit of all men undergoing a TRUS-guided prostate biopsy by one of nine urologists in Newcastle, New South Wales, to assess the incidence of bacteraemia and changes in antimicrobial susceptibility.
- Subject
- biopsy; sepsis; transrectal ultrasound; TRUS; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316105
- Identifier
- uon:23078
- Identifier
- ISSN:0025-729X
- Language
- eng
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