Does negative pressure wound therapy have a role in preventing poststernotomy wound complications?

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140-146

  Atkins, Broadus Zane ^a,c   Wooten, Mary Kay ^a   Kistler, Jean ^a   Hurley, Kista ^a   Hughes, Chad G ^b   Wolfe, Walter G ^b  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Surgical Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Median sternotomy; Subatmospheric pressure; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; SURGICAL INFECTION; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 67649649784     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350609334821     Document Type: Article

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