Stable post-TRUS biopsy sepsis rates and antibiotic resistance over 5 years in patients from Newcastle, New South Wales

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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