Sepsis & infection

Guidelines on Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Surgery 2024

Anaesth Crit Care Pain MedPublished Clinical practice guideline

Methodological detailsGrading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology, expert consensus, Formal COI policy enforced throughout, Consensus committee of 167 experts from SFAR and 28 surgery and interventional medicine learned societies, Questions in 2 fields and 9 domains, PICO format; evidence assessed by GRADE, Strong agreement for all recommendations after 2 rounds of scoring and amendment
  • GRADE methodology
  • Expert consensus
  • Formal COI policy enforced throughout
  • Consensus committee of 167 experts from SFAR and 28 surgery and interventional medicine learned societies
  • Questions in 2 fields and 9 domains, PICO format; evidence assessed by GRADE
  • Strong agreement for all recommendations after 2 rounds of scoring and amendment

Recommendations

As issued by the authors

  1. 9 tables of recommendations, by specialty, on antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery and interventional medicine; several with high (GRADE 1+) and low (GRADE 2+) levels of evidence, many as expert opinions

Original publication

Guidelines on Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Surgery 2024. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. Published 31 January 2026. doi:10.1016/j.accpm.2026.101749

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