Topical application of bacitracin ointment is associated with decreased risk of mediastinitis after median sternotomy

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 267-270

  MacIver, Robroy H ^a,b   Stewart, Robert ^a   Frederiksen, James W ^a   Fullerton, David A ^a   Horvath, Keith A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BACITRACIN; CEFUROXIME; VANCOMYCIN; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINITIS; OBESITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL RISK; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; OINTMENT; STERNUM; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORACOTOMY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACITRACIN; HUMANS; MEDIASTINITIS; OINTMENTS; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 33750545593     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20051187     Document Type: Article

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