Risk factors for surgical site infection following spine surgery: Efficacy of intraoperative saline irrigation

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 540-546

  Watanabe, Masahiko ^a   Sakai, Daisuke ^a   Matsuyama, Daisuke ^a   Yamamoto, Yukihiro ^a   Sato, Masato ^a   Mochida, Joji ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contamination; Risk factor; Surgical site infection; Wound irrigation

Indexed keywords

INSULIN DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PROTEUS INFECTION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; SPINE SURGERY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SPINE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77951740757     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.11.SPINE09308     Document Type: Article

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