Can antibiotics as compared to placebo prevent postoperative wound infections after open groin hernia repair surgery?

Up to the 1990s, suture-based hernia repair (herniorrhaphy) was the method of choice. From then onwards hernia repair with a synthetic mesh (hernioplasty) gained increasing popularity and the debate as to whether antibiotics are needed to prevent postoperative wound infections started again.

Source: Cochrane

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