Risk factors for mediastinitis following median sternotomy in children

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 613-618

  Kagen, Jessica ^a   Lautenbach, Ebbing ^b   Bilker, Warren B ^b   Matro, Jennifer ^a   Bell, Louis M ^a,b   Dominguez, Troy E ^b   Gaynor, J William ^a,b   Shah, Samir S ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Child; Median sternotomy; Mediastinitis; Surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; STERNOTOMY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX SURGERY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEDIASTINITIS; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 34347354385     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31806166bb     Document Type: Article

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