The association of propofol usage with postoperative wound infection rate in clean wounds: A retrospective study

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 256-259

  Heldmann, Eileen ^a   Brown, Dorothy Cimino ^a   Shofer, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAT; DOG; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; CATS; DOGS; LOGISTIC MODELS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROPOFOL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033159327     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jvet.1999.0256     Document Type: Article

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