Antibiotics for pelvic fracture

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The only data I know to support the use of prophylactic antibiotics in  
pelvic bone injury is in cases with fracture secondary to GSW where the bullet  has 
gone through the colon and then the pelvis, creating an open pelvic  
fracture, with colon organisms dragged into the wound.   One can  extrapolate to the 
pelvis if it is an OPEN pelvic fracture.    Literature does exist about the 
value of antibiotics in open fractures in  preventing chronic osteo.     
 
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