Normothermia to prevent surgical site infections after gastrointestinal surgery: Holy grail or false idol?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 696-703

  Lehtinen, Simon J ^a   Onicescu, Georgiana ^a   Kuhn, Kathy M ^b   Cole, David J ^a   Esnaola, Nestor F ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77957997481     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181f6c2a9     Document Type: Article

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