Management with Closed Irrigation for Post-Sternotomy Mediastinitis: Experience with the Use of Electrolyzed Strong Acid Aqueous Solution

Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 511-514

  Ohuchi, Shingo ^a   Kawazoe, Kohei ^a   Ishihara, Kazuaki ^a   Izumoto, Hiroshi ^a   Eishi, Kiyoyuki ^b  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Closed irrigation; Electrolyzed strong acid aqueous solution; Mediastinitis

Indexed keywords

ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; LAVAGE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUSCLE FLAP; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STERNUM; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEBRIDEMENT; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; STERNUM;

EID: 0442310529     PISSN: 13444964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-003-0112-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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