Impact of deep sternal wound infection management with vacuum-assisted closure therapy followed by sternal osteosynthesis: a 15-year review of 23 499 sternotomies

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 880-887

  Baillot, Richard ^a   Cloutier, Daniel ^a   Montalin, Livia ^a   Côté, Louise ^a   Lellouche, François ^b   Houde, Chanel ^a   Gaudreau, Geneviève ^a   Voisine, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mediastinitis; Sternal osteosynthesis; VAC therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BILATERAL INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY GRAFTING; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STERNAL OSTEOSYNTHESIS; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BONE PLATES; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77949484962     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.09.023     Document Type: Article

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