Influence of skin flora and preventive measures on surgical site infection during cardiac surgery

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Dohmen, Pascal M C E ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ADHESIVE AGENT; ALCOHOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACITRACIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORHEXIDINE; DAPTOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IODOPHOR; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; NEOMYCIN; PLACEBO; POLYMYXIN; PROPANOL; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; TRICLOSAN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ESTHETIC SURGERY; HAND; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCISION; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SKIN CARE; SKIN FLORA; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 33746929466     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.s1-13     Document Type: Review

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