'as prophylaxis for' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to something that provides protection against a particular problem, illness, or disease. For example, "She now takes a daily vitamin D supplement as prophylaxis for osteoporosis."
Current guidelines on perioperative care recommend single antiplatelet therapy with aspirin as prophylaxis for cardiovascular events.
Cefuroxim (Zinacef®) was given routinely in the study period as prophylaxis for infection.
Moreover, Drynov and colleagues [12] studied Tonsilgon® N drops as prophylaxis for acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) and recurrent chronic tonsillitis in children in Russia.
Previous literature has shown acyclovir to be cost-effective as prophylaxis for women with genital symptomatic herpes simplex virus infection recurrence during pregnancy.
The purpose of this study was to compare a single 600-mg dose of preoperative intravenously administered clindamycin with a 24-hour 600-mg regimen of clindamycin as prophylaxis for postoperative infections in bilateral sagittal ramus osteotomies.
These changes include the avoidance of high-dose rabbit antithymocyte serum in patients who received T-cell-depleted grafts, use of corticosteroids with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor during stem cell mobilization and as prophylaxis for the engraftment syndrome in MS, lung radiation shielding in SSc, and multiple precautions against the macrophage activation syndrome in JIA.
Evidence for the effectiveness of aspirin and supplemental calcium in populations with low dietary calcium intake as prophylaxis for pre-eclampsia have been firmly established, are recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), and a guiding practice in many developed countries.
We report a severe, panuveitis-like reaction to single-sitting encircling laser retinopexy/cerclage as prophylaxis for retinal detachment in a young male with no established comorbidities and only equatorial vitreous condensations as an abnormal finding in the treated eye prior to laser.
Biperiden was not allowed as prophylaxis for extrapyramidal symptoms.
Postpartum bemiparin and enoxaparin are both effective as prophylaxis for VTE.
Because of the lung atelectasis, the child received cefuroxime as prophylaxis for 2 weeks.
