Infections in the operated spine: Update on risk management and therapeutic strategies

Orthopaedics and Traumatology: Surgery and Research

Volumn 97, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Lazennec, J Y ^a   Fourniols, E ^a   Lenoir, T ^b   Aubry, A ^a   Pissonnier, M L ^a   Issartel, B ^c   Rousseau, M A ^a  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Centre de vaccinations internationales et de médecine des voyages   (France)

Author keywords

Complications of spinal surgery; Spinal infection; Surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GALLIUM; GENTAMICIN; METHOTREXATE; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TECHNETIUM; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE INFECTION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GLYCOCALYX; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; KLEBSIELLA; LABORATORY TEST; MALNUTRITION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEUS INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEPSIS; SMOKING; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE INFECTION; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT PLANNING; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND CLOSURE;

DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 80053267506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otsr.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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