Clinical predictors of major infections after cardiac surgery

Circulation

Volumn 112, Issue 9 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Fowler Jr , Vance G ^a   O'Brien, Sean M ^a   Muhlbaier, Lawrence H ^a   Corey, G Ralph ^a   Ferguson, T Bruce ^b   Peterson, Eric D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bypass; Diagnosis; Infection; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPTICEMIA; THORACOTOMY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEIN SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTRA-AORTIC BALLOON PUMPING; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 24644457596     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.104.525790     Document Type: Article

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