Gentamicin-collagen sponge reduces sternal wound complications after heart surgery: A controlled, prospectively randomized, double-blind study

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 194-200

  Schimmer, Christoph ^a   Özkur, Mehmet ^a   Sinha, Bhanu ^b   Hain, Johannes ^b   Gorski, Armin ^a   Hager, Benjamin ^a   Leyh, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN SPONGE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; GENTAMICIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STERNOTOMY; THROMBOCYTE; TRANSFUSION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COLLAGEN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; SURGICAL SPONGES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 83555165960     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.05.035     Document Type: Article

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