Post-cesarean related infection and vaginal preparation with povidone-iodine revisited

Primary Care Update for Ob/Gyns

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 206-209

  Guzman, Melissa A ^a   Prien, Samuel D ^a   Blann, David W ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANESTHESIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELLULITIS; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRITIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCISION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LABOR; MATERNAL AGE; PARITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINA FLORA;

EID: 0036851396     PISSN: 1068607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1068-607X(02)00119-1     Document Type: Article

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