RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Antibiotics after puncture wounds to the foot
JF Emergency Medicine Journal
JO Emerg Med J
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine
SP 49
OP 49
DO 10.1136/emj.19.1.49-a
VO 19
IS 1
A1 Magnus Harrison
A1 Martin Thomas
YR 2002
UL http://emj.bmj.com/content/19/1/49.2.abstract
AB A short cut review was carried out to establish whether antibiotics reduce infective complications after puncture wounds to the foot. A totla of 29 papers were found using the reported search, of which none answered the question posed. Further research is needed in this area.