A multi-disciplinary review of the potential association between closed-suction drains and surgical site infection

Surgical Infections

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 244-269

  Reiffel, Alyssa J ^a   Barie, Philip S ^a   Spector, Jason A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; ENOXAPARIN;

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; BREAST SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLOSED SUCTION DRAIN; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OBSTETRIC OPERATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PARATHYROID GLAND; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SKIN SURGERY; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORAX SURGERY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THYROIDECTOMY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; WOUND DRAINAGE;

DRAINAGE; HUMANS; SUCTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84879383703     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2011.126     Document Type: Review

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