Sternal wound care to prevent infections in adult cardiac surgery patients

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-84

  Stoodley, Lynda ^a,b   Lillington, Linda ^a   Ansryan, Lianna ^a   Ota, Reiko ^a   Caluya, Jun ^a   Camello, Edwin ^a   Huskins, Maria ^a   Franco, Daniella ^a   Silvino, Cherry Mae ^a   Nwokafor, Ezioma ^a   Van Zitter, Brandy ^a   Olton, Maria ^a   Howard, Linda ^a   Bailey, Lorri ^a   Mohler, Rhonda ^a  

^a TORRANCE MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

sternal care; sternal wound care; sternal wound infection; surgical site care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; NURSE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; STERNUM; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CARE;

ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 83655197661     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: 15505111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CNQ.0b013e31823b1e5f     Document Type: Article

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