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Title: Nail gun injuries: surgery and antibiotics?

Category: Trauma

Keywords: Nail gun injury, surgery, antibiotics (PubMed Search)

Posted: 6/1/2025 by Robert Flint, MD (Updated: 6/1/2025)

An Australian retrospective study of 158 patients treated for nail gun injuries found those treated with operative debridement or with prophylactic antibiotics had no different 30 day infection rates compared to patients receiving no antibiotics.

References

Slater S, Vasudeva M, Mitra B, Sreedharan S. Penetrating nail gun injuries: Role of antibiotics and surgical management. Trauma. 2025;0(0). doi:10.1177/14604086251320524


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