Incidence and predictors of infection in patients undergoing primary isolated coronary artery bypass grafting: A report from a tertiary care hospital in a developing country

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-104

  Ahmed, D ^a   Cheema, F H ^b   Ahmed, Y I ^a   Schaefle, K J ^b   Azam, S I ^a   Sami, S A ^a   Sharif, H M ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass graft; Surgical wound infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; POVIDONE IODINE;

ACINETOBACTER; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; ENTEROBACTER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STERNAL SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PAKISTAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955031557     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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