Risk Factors and Management Approach for Deep Sternal Wound Infection After Cardiac Surgery at a Tertiary Medical Centre

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 712-717

  Floros, Peter ^a   Sawhney, Raja ^a   Vrtik, Marosh ^a   Hinton Bayre, Anton ^a   Weimers, Paul ^a   Senewiratne, Shireen ^a   Mundy, Julie ^a   Shah, Pallav ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mediastinal infection; Outcomes; Risk predictors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; BILATERAL PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE FLAP; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDIASTINITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MUSCLE FLAP; PECTORALIS MAJOR ADVANCEMENT FLAP; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE FLAP; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STERNUM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80054121125     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: 14442892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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