Triclosan-coated sutures for the reduction of sternal wound infections? A retrospective observational analysis

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 296-299

  Stadler, Stefan ^a   Fleck, Tatjana ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Mediastinal infection; Sternum; Surgery complications; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

TRICLOSAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; MATERIAL STATE; MIXED INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; STERNOTOMY; SUTURE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; AUSTRIA; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICLOSAN;

EID: 80052559059     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2011.269001     Document Type: Article

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