[The importance of the prophylactic use of antibiotics with women undergoing elective cesarean section].

Postoperative infectious morbidity was described in two groups of low risk cesarean sections (CS). The frequency of postoperative infectious complications was 6.89% of women, who received penicillin for a period of 3 to 5 days, but 5.67% of women, who did not received antibiotics prophylactically. Data were presented, which showed also the economic insignificance of antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) in women with low risk CS. On the basis of the indicated data an inference was made that AP was of no clinical efficiency in women with low risk cesarean sections. The authors recommend restraint in AP of such women, in whom postoperative infectious inflammatory complications are anyway very rare.