The majority of US combat casualty soft-tissue wounds are not infected or colonized upon arrival or during treatment at a continental US military medical facility

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 489-495

  Sheppard, Forest R ^a,b,c   Keiser, Paul ^d   Craft, David W ^d   Gage, Fred ^a,b   Robson, Martin ^e   Brown, Trevor S ^b   Petersen, Kyle ^b   Sincock, Stephanie ^a   Kasper, Matt ^a   Hawksworth, Jason ^a,b   Tadaki, Doug ^b,c   Davis, Thomas A ^b   Stojadinovic, Alexander ^a   Elster, Eric ^a,b,c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Combat extremity wounds; Combat soft tissue wounds; Device; Microorganisms; Vacuum assisted wound closure

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BATTLE INJURY; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MILITARY SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; UNITED STATES; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; BACTERIA; BIOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SOLDIER; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BACTERIA; BIOPSY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957350914     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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