Fifty ways to cause surgical site infections

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 497-500

  Fry, Donald E ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PENICILLIN G; SULFANILAMIDE;

ALCOHOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CAUTERIZATION; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COLON RESECTION; CORE TEMPERATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG ABUSE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; IMPLANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84555188145     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2011.091     Document Type: Note

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