Mediastinal irrigation with superoxidized water after open-heart surgery: The safety and pitfalls of cardiovascular surgical application

Surgery Today

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1055-1056

  Ohno, Hideaki ^a   Higashidate, Masafumi ^a   Yokosuka, Tatsuya ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Mediastinal irrigation; Superoxidized water

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LAVAGE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OXIDATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SHORT SURVEY; STERNOTOMY; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISINFECTANTS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRRIGATION; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; OXIDANTS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033636551     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950070035     Document Type: Article

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