How many days of preoperative antibiotics do you give a patient if they have a positive urine culture and are scheduled for ureteroscopy and laser lithotripsy?

Great question! I treat these patients as if they have a complicated urinary tract infection and begin culture-specific antibiotics 7 days before surgery through the date of surgery. I generally do not repeat testing in the interim to confirm a negative culture as long as they do not develop worseni...