Clinical Anesthesia Procedures
Common Intravenous Antibiotics
The antibiotics listed in this appendix are those usually given in the perioperative period. Doses marked by (+) are those that are recommended by the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Infectious Disease service for standard surgical procedure antibiotic prophylaxis. These should be administered within 1 hour of incision unless indicated.
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Citation
Pino, Richard M., editor. "Common Intravenous Antibiotics." Clinical Anesthesia Procedures, 10th ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2022. Anesthesia Central, anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/ClinicalAnesthesiaProcedures/728619/all/Common_Intravenous_Antibiotics.
Common Intravenous Antibiotics. In: Pino RMR, ed. Clinical Anesthesia Procedures. Wolters Kluwer; 2022. https://anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/ClinicalAnesthesiaProcedures/728619/all/Common_Intravenous_Antibiotics. Accessed November 8, 2025.
Common Intravenous Antibiotics. (2022). In Pino, R. M. (Ed.), Clinical Anesthesia Procedures (10th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. https://anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/ClinicalAnesthesiaProcedures/728619/all/Common_Intravenous_Antibiotics
Common Intravenous Antibiotics [Internet]. In: Pino RMR, editors. Clinical Anesthesia Procedures. Wolters Kluwer; 2022. [cited 2025 November 08]. Available from: https://anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/ClinicalAnesthesiaProcedures/728619/all/Common_Intravenous_Antibiotics.
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