Does a gentamicin-impregnated collagen sponge reduce sternal wound infections in high-risk cardiac surgery patients?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 134-141

  Birgand, Gabriel ^a,b   Radu, Costin ^a   Alkhoder, Soleiman ^a   Al Attar, Nawwar ^a,b   Raffoul, Richard ^a   Dilly, Marie Pierre ^a   Nataf, Patrick ^a,b   Lucet, Jean Christophe ^a,b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b GH Bichat Claude Bernard   (France)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Gentamicin; Infections; Sponge

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENTAMICIN IMPREGNATED COLLAGEN SPONGE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL SPONGE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLLAGEN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG CARRIERS; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PARIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL SPONGES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872737638     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivs449     Document Type: Article

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