Simplified wound care and earlier wound recovery without closed suction drainage in elective total hip arthroplasty. A prospective randomized trial in 100 operations

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 919-923

  Dora, Claudio ^a   von Campe, Arndt ^a   Mengiardi, Bernhard ^a   Koch, Peter ^a   Vienne, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blood loss; Drainage; Suction; Total hip replacement; Wound

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; LIMB SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BANDAGES; DRAINAGE; FASCIA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 35448978436     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-006-0260-0     Document Type: Article

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