Nosocomial infections after peripheral arterial bypass surgery

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1687-1692

  Ploeg, Arianne ^a   Lange, Christopher ^a   Lardenoye, Jan Willem ^a   Breslau, Paul ^a  

^a HAGA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BYPASS SURGERY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 34447308537     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9130-3     Document Type: Article

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