Stanford University Medical Center
Antibiotics Can Prevent Wound Complications of Childbirth, Stanford/Packard Study Finds
Published in Physician Law Weekly, June 25th, 2008
A single dose of antibiotics can significantly aid healing of the severe tearing that occurs in vaginal tissues during many births, according to researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, the Stanford University School of Medicine and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. The study is the first to show that the simple treatment can prevent many of the short- and long-term repercussions of this relatively common complication of childbirth.
As many as one in five women suffer severe vaginal tears during childbirth. In the study, those who received the antibiotic endured roughly one-third as many infections or other wound-healing complications two weeks...
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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2008-06-25)
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