Surgical-site infection after cardiac surgery: Incidence, microbiology, and risk factors

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 466-472

  Lepelletier, Didier ^a   Perron, Stéphanie ^a   Bizouarn, Philippe ^a   Caillon, Jocelyne ^a   Drugeon, Henri ^a   Michaud, Jean Luc ^a   Duveau, Daniel ^a  

^a CHU de Nantes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 18844456534     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502569     Document Type: Review

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