Emergency versus Elective Cervical Cerclage: An Audit of Our First Two Years of Service

Table 3

Antibiotic and progesterone use.

	Total Cerclage (n=39)	Elective Cerclage (n=26)	Emergency Cerclage (n=13)	P-Value (Elective vs Emergency)
Antibiotic Pre-Op ()	3 (7.7)	1 (3.9)	2 (15.4)	0.253
Antibiotic Intra-Op ()	28 (71.8)	18 (69.2)	10 (76.9)	0.719
Antibiotic Post-Op ()	15 (38.5)	6 (23.1)	9 (69.3)	0.0126
Progesterone Pre-Op ()	12 (20.8)	6 (23.1)	6 (46.2)	0.163
Progesterone Post-op ()	27 (69.2)	15 (57.7)	12 (92.3)	0.033

Statistically significant.