Supplemental perioperative oxygen to reduce the incidence of surgical- wound infection

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 342, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 161-167

  Greif, Robert ^a   Akça, Ozan ^b   Horn, Ernst Peter ^d   Kurz, Andrea ^b,e   Sessler, Daniel I ^b,c,f  

^a Donauspital ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL WOUND; WOUND INFECTION;

COLON; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RECTUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0342905428     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200001203420303     Document Type: Article

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